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[lee reich <lreich@hvc.rr.com>]

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

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From: mauch1@aol.com

To: nafex@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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