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    An Article on the Kaki and its Relatives being Fruits of the Diospyros Family Found in the Tropics
    An Article on the Kaki and its Relatives being Fruits of the Diospyros Family Found in the Tropics
    An Article on the Kaki and its Relatives being Fruits of the Diospyros Family Found in the Tropics
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    An Article on the Kaki and its Relatives being Fruits of the Diospyros Family Found in the Tropics

    By Wilson Popenoe

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    This article contains a wealth of geographical, historical and botanical information about the rose family fruits in the tropics. Contents Include: Kiki or Japanese Persimmon - Cultivation, Propagation, Yield and Picking, Pests and Diseases, Varieties; Black Sapote; Mabolo. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781473354777
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      An Article on the Kaki and its Relatives being Fruits of the Diospyros Family Found in the Tropics - Wilson Popenoe

      THE KAKI AND ITS RELATIVES

      THE genus Diospyros comprises about 200 species, mostly tropical and subtropical. One of them is the native persimmon (D. virginiana), which reaches as far north as Connecticut. The oriental kinds are becoming prominent fruits in the lower part of the eastern United States. Diospyros is the largest genus of the Ebony family, which is closely allied to Sapotaceæ. This genus and others furnish the ebony wood of commerce.

      THE KAKI OR JAPANESE PERSIMMON (Plate XXI)

      (Diospyros Kaki, L. f.)

      The Japanese, who cultivate more than 800 varieties of the kaki, consider it one of their best fruits. The Chinese also value it highly and devote large areas to its production. Although it has been grown on a small scale in southern France for nearly a century, it is not believed to have reached the United States until the time of Commodore Perry’s visit to Japan in 1856, and it was only in 1870 (or thereabouts) that grafted trees of superior varieties were first brought to this country.

      Much attention has recently been devoted to the kaki, and it seems probable that it will assume an important position among the orchard-fruits of the cotton-belt and of California. If it does so, credit for its establishment on such a basis will be due largely to the United States Department of Agriculture as having introduced into this country the best Chinese and Japanese sorts, and to H. H. Hume of Florida for his investigations of cultural problems. The name of Frank N. Meyer, late agricultural explorer for the Department of Agriculture, will be remembered by horticulturists in connection with the introduction of Chinese varieties.

      The kaki is a deciduous tree growing up to 40 feet in height (though there are dwarf varieties which remain smaller than this), and having usually a round open crown. The leaves are ovate-elliptic, oblong-ovate, or even obovate in outline, acuminate at the apex, glabrous above and finely pubescent beneath, and 3 to 7 inches long. While it has usually been supposed that the kaki is dioecious, or rarely polygamous, Hume1 has shown that a single tree may produce three kinds of flowers, perfect, staminate, and pistillate, in varying combinations. All of these are borne upon the current season’s growth and

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