Fruits and Pits of the Chinese Wild Peach. 
[Amygdalus davidiana. ) 
The discovery by Frank N. Meyer that this species of 
wild peach which produces inedible fruits has been used 
probably for centuries in China as a stock for many stone 
fruits has led to its extensive trial for the same purpose 
in America. Several plantings of commercial peaches, 
plums, apricots, and almonds budded upon this as a stock 
have reached bearing age in California and Texas and are 
unusually promising. Owing to the resistance . to cold, 
drought and alkali of this new stock and the ease with 
which it can be budded, it appears probable, if supplies 
of the seed can be raised, that it will form the root 
system of large commercial peach plantings in California, 
Utah and Texas. In Oregon the largest nurserymen are at- 
tracted by the ease with which it can be worked, and in 
Minnesota and Iowa trees of it have stood untouched by 
the low temperatures, even -40° F. , which have killed com- 
mercial varieties to the ground. It cannot be expected to 
fruit in any region visited by late frosts, as its buds 
swell easily in warm, damp weather. Natural size photo- 
graph, taken by R. L. Beagles, July 14, 1915, at Chico, 
Calif. , Neg. No. 535. 
