32 BULI.ETIN 62. 



32. Yellow Japan. — This name occasionally appears, but I do 

 not know the fruit. Burbank and another red plum have been 

 sold under this name. 



33. Yellow Nagate. — Unknown to me. 

 Yonemomo : see Satsiima. 



34. Yosebe (Yosobe). — Small, conical, with a distinct suture, 

 reddish purple in color, the yellow flesh soft and good ; pit free 

 or very nearly so ; very earlj^, ripening before the Ogon. Tree 

 rather dwarf, with leaves comparatively small and rugose and 

 ver>' prominently serrate, yellowish green in color, and condupli- 

 cate or trough-shaped as they hang upon the tree. Twigs reddish. 



Imported by H. H. Berger & Co. Too small to be very valu- 

 able, unless for its earliness. 



Luther Burbank catalogues amongst his novelties of 1893, an 

 unnamed purple-leaved seedling of Kelsey ; Golden, said to be a 

 cross of Robinson (Chickasaw) and Sweet Botan ; Juicy, of same 

 parentage ; an unnamed variety, said to be a cross of Botan by 

 Robinson ; and an unnamed cross of Kelsey by Satsuma. 



Weaknesses and Diseases. — Undoubtedl}' one of the most serious 

 weaknesses of the Japanese plums is their very early season of 

 bloom. This is particularly noticeable in the middle and southern 

 states, where the buds are read}^ to burst with the very first warm 

 days of spring. In the north, where the soil is colder and the 

 unseasonable "warm spells " are of comparatively short duration, 

 this tendenc}^ to earl 3^ bloom is less marked. Yet some of the 

 Japanese varieties seem to be especially given to early awakening 

 in the spring. I have not heard of serious trouble in this respect 

 in New York, but many of the varieties are not 3^et bearing in 

 this state. The following records of habitual injury from spring 

 frosts have been received from correspondents : 



VARIETIES LIABLE TO INJURY BY SPRING FROSTS- 



Observer. Varieties injured. 



J. T. Lovett, Little Silver, Monmouth Co., N. J. Abundance, Burbank, Kel- 

 sey, Ogon, Satsuma. 



J. W. Kerr, Denton, Carolina Co., Md., Botankio (Babcock?), Bur- 



bank, Chabot, Kelsey. 



J. S. Breece, Faj^etteville, Cumberland Co.,N.C. Kelsey, Satsuma. 



J. L. Normand, Marksville, Avoyelles Co., La. Satsuma. 



Stark Bros., Loaisiana, Pike Co., Mo., Kelsey, Satsuma. 



