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-quality; cling; rather early. Little known. TJchi-Beni means 

 inside red. 



Stark Bros, write me as follows, under date of August 12, 1895 

 " This is a small plum, similar to the variety you describe as Berger, 

 and is the variety we called Strawberry when we propagated it ; 

 but we discarded it two years ago. Kipens a few days after the 

 Earliest of All, but is not so large nor so good quality and is not at 

 all productive, while the Earliest of All is remarkably productive." 



White-Fleshed Botan : See Berckmans. 



Wasse Botonkyo. 



Name given, without comment, in J. L. Normand's "Special 



Circular," 1895-6. 



Wasse Smomo. 



" Said to be very early." — J. L. Normandy ^'-Special CirGular^'' 



1895-6, 



Wassu. 



Name only, in J. L. Normand's " Special Circular," 1895-6, 



Weeping Blood. 



" This is a valuable acquisition, said to produce a blood-red plum 

 of good quality. The tree must be seen to be appreciated. I have 

 them here on my experimental grounds, growing finely ; I budded 

 them at different heights on straight peach stock four to eight feet 

 from the ground, with slender limbs curving down gracefully like 

 the Tea's Weeping mulberry. Single trees set out on the lawn 

 look grand." — J. L. Normandy '^Special Circular^'' 1895-6. 



White Kelset. 



*' This is a duplicate in size and shape of the common Kelsey, 

 except it is of a pale, creamy color, almost white when ripe ; does 

 not rot before maturity like the Kelsey, and much earlier to ripen 

 and later to bloom than it ; delicious in flavor." — J. L. J^ormand, 



^'Special Circular^'' 1895-6. 



WicKsoN {Burbanh, Catalogue^ 1894). 

 Perfection, of Burbank. 

 A remarkably handsome and very large, deep maroon-red plum 

 of the Kelsey type. Long cordate or oblong pointed ; flesh firm, 



