Fourth Keport ox Japanese Plums. 157 



18. Satsuma. — Fig. 4:0. 



Blood. Yonemomo. 



Fruit medium to large, round-obloug or round-conical, with a 

 short blunt point and deep suture ; color very dull dark brown-red 

 with a heavy bloom, mottled with greenish dots ; flesh hard and 

 blood-red, very tenaciously clinging to the small pit, acerb but 

 l)ecoming rich and pleasant when fully ripe. This season the 

 Satsuma was edible and also fit for market, but still hard, on the 8th 

 and 10th of September. For the last three years the Satsuma has 

 been a very prolific plum with us. When the trees were young they 

 bore sparingly. Some growers complain that even when the trees 

 are nearly matured they do not bear. It is a very long keeper. We 

 believe that it is one of the coming Japanese plums. The red flesh 

 may be against it in many markets. It seems to be an excellent plum 

 for culinarj^ purposes. The tree is a moderately spreading, but 

 strong grower, and is distinguished from most varieties of Japanese 

 plums by its habit of bearing spurs and short branches all along the 

 main forks or brandies of the top. 



19. The Normand Hybrid Plums. 



J. L. J^ormand, Marksville, La., has distributed a number of 

 so-called Japanese plums under numbers ranging from one to 

 twenty. They are hybrids of apparently unrecorded parentage. 

 Mr. N"ormand advertises (1899) : " Out of over 30,000 seedling Japan 

 plums we have fruited the past three years, we have selected 20 

 varieties. '^ ^ - Most of these plums are a cross between the 

 Japan and our native plums."' One of these (l^o. 15) we named 

 Louisiana in our Bulletin 139, giving a picture thereof. In naming 

 this plum, we did not recommend it ; but since these numbered 

 plums are offered to the trade, it seems to be necessary to name them. 

 This year we have fruited two others of these numbered plums, and, 

 with Mr. Kormand's consent, we have given them names. 



Georgia (Norman ISTo. 20). Fig. 41. Fruit of medium size but 

 variable, oblong, very blunt or sometimes with a cavity at the apex ; 

 color green or light greenish yellow when first ripe but becoming 



