The Japanese Plums. 



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The picture shown here and upon the title-page is natural size. 

 The fruit is verj^ distinct in appearance and cannot be mistaken 

 for any other Japanese plum which I have seen. Mr. Berckmans 

 sends it to me without a name, saying that it came from H. H. 

 Berger & Co., of San Francisco, as Red Xagate. X. S. Piatt 



sends it from 

 Connecticut as 

 Satsuma, the 

 name under 

 which it was re- 

 ceived from Ber- 

 It comes 



ger. 



from the south 

 , „..- - ^,^ (also originally 

 ■ from Berger) as 

 Shiro Smomo. I 

 Berger. Full size. also have it from 



Western New York, unnamed. T. V. Munson, Texas, sends speci- 

 mens which he calls the Berger, and I have adopted his name, 

 although Ido not know ifhehas published it. He writes as follows 

 of it: "The Berger plum is an upright, cherry-like tree. It bears a 

 purple fruit about the size of the Black Tartarian cherry, with 

 meaty flesh, nearly free stone which is as small as the pit of the 

 common Black Morello cherry and much the same shape.'" Mr. 

 Berckmans sa^-s that the ' ' tree is very vigorous and distinct in 

 growth, but a shy bearer. The fruit is too small to be worthy of 

 being retained." What I have seen of this fruit, however, leads 

 me to believe that it may be a useful sort for the home garden 

 because of its earliness, daintiness and pleasing flavor. Professor 

 Georgeson, to whom I have submitted specimens, pronounces it 

 a Sumomo. 



Blood: see Salsa ma. 



Botan : seeAd?iftda?ice, Badcock, Berckmafis,a.ndJVi7/arcl. There 

 are evidently other plums in the countrj' passing as Botans which 

 are little known and which have not received distinctive names. 



Botankio : see Babcock. 



6. Burbank. — Medium, to rather large upon thinned trees, 

 roundish conical in form, the point generally blunt : ground color 



