| 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 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:
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