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ripening about with the Burbank, or about a week earlier than 

 Chabot in the south. 



Imported in 1885 by Luther Burbank. Now named for Col- E- 

 F. Babcock, a well-known nurseryman of Little Rock, Arkansas, 

 and among the first to grow and recommend the variety. 



3. Bailey. — Large, nearly globular, with only a slight tendency 

 to become conical : ground color rich orange, overspread with light 

 and bright cherry-red, and showing many minute orange dots ; 

 flesh thick and melting, yellow, of excellent quality, cling. Tree 

 strong and upright, productive. Closely related to Burbank, but 

 rounder and mosth' larger, and a week or more later. 



Imported by J. L. Normand, Marksville, Louisiana, and by 

 him named and introduced in 1891. Figured in American Gar- 

 dening, xiii. (1892), p. 700. There appears to be another Bailey 

 plum of the Domestica type. I know it only from a plate made 

 by Dewey of Rochester and which declares that it ' ' has not failed 

 to bear for twenty-five successive years." The Rochester Litho- 

 graphing Co., successors to Dewey, write me that this plate was 

 in Dewey's stock before 1886, but that thej' know nothing further 

 about it. 



4. Berckmans (True Sweet Botan. Sweet Botan. White-Fleshed 

 Botan. Botan, of some). — Medium (or slightly above if thinned), 

 broadly and obtusely conical and somewhat angular in cross- 

 section ; deep blood red if ripened in the sun ; flesh ver>' sweet, 

 moderately juicy, excellent in quality, cling or semi-cling ; ripens 

 with Abundance or just ahead of it. One of the best. 



Introduced b}' Luther Burbank in 1887, from imported stock. 

 The variety does not appear to be a true Botan, and its nomen- 

 clature is so confused and indefinite that I have renamed it for 

 Mr. Berckmans, who has done much to popularize it. I am not 

 sure if the true variety has been fruited in the north, but forms 

 which are evidently the same bear well in New York. The illus- 

 tration in Plate II is made from specimens received from Mr. 

 Berckmans. 



5. Berger. — Fruit very small and globular, bright uniform 

 red, with a firm, meaty and sweet j-ellow flesh and a very small 

 free .stone, ripening as early as the middle of July in .some parts 

 of New York and Connecticut. 



