[NAFEX] Jujubes in New Mexico & Ilinois

lee reich lreich at hvc.rr.com
Fri Jan 13 13:40:11 EST 2006


Quoting again from my book Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden:

             Three hundred years ago, the Chinese writer Li Shi Chen  
described forty-three varieties of jujube; today, China has over  
eight hundred varieties. Most jujube plants in Europe and America are  
seedling trees with fruits of variable quality. My first introduction  
to the fruit was not favorable: I joined a Chinese couple in  
gathering fruit from beneath a tree growing in the shadow of the  
Capitol in Washington, D.C. This tree (now called ‘Admiral Wilkes’)  
evidently was not one of the better clones, for I found the fruits  
insipid. Years later, the fruits of a tree at the Brooklyn Botanical  
Garden in New York, though small, were tasty enough to renew my  
interest in the plant.

Lee Reich, PhD
www.leereich.com

Books by Lee Reich:
Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden
A Northeast Gardener's Year
The Pruning Book
Weedless Gardening



On Jan 13, 2006, at 12:02 PM, MARIE ASHTON wrote:

> Even in the humid areas of our country you have to divide it into  
> warm humid areas, such as Georgia, and cool humid areas such as,  
> Tennessee and Virginia. We know that Leon Burk, Silverhill and  
> Tigertooth do well in Georgia. Sui Men was adapted to the Tennessee  
> Valley Authority and is apparently do well there. Admiral Wilkes  
> was found in Washington D.C. and apparently do well there. Lang is  
> doing very well in the humid southeast costal area of Texas. Other  
> people know of other varieties that are doing well for them in  
> other areas.
> For your area in PA have you tried Admiral Wilkes or Sui Men? Sui  
> Men would be worth a try and it is has fairly good fruit. As I have  
> stated you just have to find the variety that fits you niche as the  
> Chinese have over many years.
> Regards
> Richard Ashton
> Brownwood, Texas
> 7b/8a AHS 9
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: mauch1 at aol.com
> To: nafex at lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 8:21 AM
> Subject: [NAFEX] Jujubes in New Mexico & Ilinois
>
>  < did not mean that there are not varieties
> of jujubes that will bear in the more humid areas because there  
> are; its
> just that you are more limited as to varieties in the humid areas.
> >
>
> Richard,
>
> Would you be able to indicate what varieties you believe would do well
> (or at least 'do better') in humid areas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris Mauchline
> SE PA, zone 6
> 40° 5' N 75° 51'W
> ~650 ft elevation
>
>
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