. Agricultural explorations in the fruit and nut orchards of China. Fruit-culture; Nuts; Plant introduction. 38 AGRICULTURAL EXPLORATIONS IN THE ORCHARDS OF CHINA. ceptible when eaten and the fruit may therefore safely be called seedless. The fruits are rather small, of a dark brown-red color, and very sweet. They are excellent when boiled with rice or millet, make delicious stewed compote, and can be eaten dried with pea- nuts, the same as raisins and almonds. Foreign soldiers in Peking, with whom the writer tested a few pounds, were remarkably fond of them. The trees grow only to a medium si
. Agricultural explorations in the fruit and nut orchards of China. Fruit-culture; Nuts; Plant introduction. 38 AGRICULTURAL EXPLORATIONS IN THE ORCHARDS OF CHINA. ceptible when eaten and the fruit may therefore safely be called seedless. The fruits are rather small, of a dark brown-red color, and very sweet. They are excellent when boiled with rice or millet, make delicious stewed compote, and can be eaten dried with pea- nuts, the same as raisins and almonds. Foreign soldiers in Peking, with whom the writer tested a few pounds, were remarkably fond of them. The trees grow only to a medium size. They are usually planted in rows through the fields at distances of from 8 to 10 feet apart. The Chinese ring the trees every year at the time of the setting of the fruit by sawing through the bark close to the base of the trunk. The}^ say that if this is not done half of the fruit is thrown off by the tree, so that by this method they dou- ble the crop. (See PI. VI, fig. 2.) The fruit of the ringed trees, however, is not so sweet by far as that coming from the un- ringed trees. "Chin sze tsao," a rather small but very sweet variety, grow- ing at Laoling, Shan- tung (fig. 12). This variety is said to be one of the best for the manufacture of the celebrated honey ju- jubes. The fruit is of a light brown-red color; the trees are of medium size, with much of the habit of the seedless jujube. "Tun ku yu tsao," a flat jujube, growing near Chinanfu, Shan- tung. This variety has a dark-brown color and is remarkably sweet; considered locally one of the best varieties for eating fresh. "Twen ku lu tsao," another flat variety, growing near Chingchowfu, Shantung. The fruit is of medium-large size, of dark-brown color, and is also very sweet. It does not keep long. The trees are of medium growth, bear but little fruit, and sucker very little. They are propagated by being grafted upon the wild stock. Besides the varieties mentioned there are scores of other
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