The Japanese Plums. 31 



these plums is known in Japan as Yonemomo, and Mr. Berck- 

 mans has used the name for this variety ; but there is no proof 

 that this particular Satsuma is the Yonemomo of Japan. 

 Shiro Smomo : see Red Nagate and Berger. 



28. Shipper. — Fruit oval, light red with a white bloom ; flesh 

 very firm (red?), sweet and juicy; long keeper. Tree sturdy, 

 but a moderate grower. Described with Burbank's Novelties, 

 1893. Seedling of Satsuma. 



29. Strawberry. — " Small, round-oblate, red-purple, with a 

 firm, yellow flesh, cling, very early, moderately productive. 

 Earliest sort fruited here, — ripe with the last of the strawberries." 

 C. M. Stark ^ Louisiana, Mo. 



There is another and older Strawberry plum, one of the Chick- 

 asaws (see p. 31, Bull. 38). 

 Sweet Botan : see Berckmans. 

 True Sweet Botan : see Berckmans. 



30. Uchi-Beyii (Ura-Beni. Honsmomo). — Medium in size, 

 heart-shaped and somewhat pointed, bright carmine-red ; flesh 

 red and fine-grained, somewhat acid, rather poor in quality, cling; 

 rather early. 



Little known.' Uchi-Beni means inside red. 

 White- Fleshed Botan : see Berckmans. 



31. Willard (Botan No. 26). — Medium in size, spherical in 

 general outline but prominently cornered or angled, never pointed, 

 the sinus very slight but stem cavity deep ; color dark clear red 

 with many minute yellow dots ; flesh rather firm, yellow, sweet 

 and of fair qualitj^ ; freestone. A strong vigorous and hardy tree, 

 productive, and the earliest market Japan plum yet tested in the 

 north, ripening in central New York late in July. In appearance 

 the fruit is remarkably like some of the improved types of Prumis 

 America7ia. Fruits ripened upon the tree are of pretty good 

 quality, but some which I ripened in-doors were poor. 



Cions procured from California six or seven years ago by S. D. 

 Willard, Geneva, N. Y., and named for him by W. F. Heikes in 

 Practical Nurseryman, June, 1893. It was probably imported 

 from Japan, but the history of it is lost. The illustration in Plate 

 II shows average specimens, full size. 



Yellow-Fleshed Botan: s<t^ Abtmdance . 



