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lemon-color or wliitish, firm and moderately juicy, not stringy ; very 

 slightly subacid to sweetish, the skin slightly sour, of good pleasant 

 quality although not so rich as some; cling to half cling; pit small. 



A very handsome plum, ripened at Ithaca in 1895 from July 28 

 to August 1, nearly a week later than Willard, and a week earlier 

 than Abundance. By all odds the best Japanese plum ri])ening 

 before the Abundance which I have yet tested. Tree (Fig. 11) up- 

 right-spreading, vigorous and hardy, about as productive with us, so 

 far, as Abundance. I thought that the quality of our specimens 

 last season w^ere nearly or quite equal to that of Abundance. 



Imported by H. H. Berger & Co., San Francisco. The nomen- 

 clature of the variety here described is much confused. H. H. 

 Berger & Co. write me that the true Japanese Red Nagate has red 

 flesh, which this has not. The name Bed Nagate is applied to such 

 different varieties, and there is such an absence of opinion as to what 

 the true Bed Kagate is, that I have adopted Bed J une as the only 

 tenable name. 



This is the varietv to which the name Shiro Smomo is oftenest 

 applied, but it is neither a Smomo plum nor is it white (Shiro 

 means white), thus affording a curious instance of the utter con- 

 fusion of the American application of the names of the Japanese 

 plums. Professor Georgeson tells me that the Shiro Smomo of 

 the Japanese is a small white early plum with yellow flesh, some- 

 what cling and of medium season. I do not know if it occurs in 

 this country ; and it is probably not w^orth while to endeavor to flt 

 the name to any variety. The Ogon is probably the nearest to it of 



any variety in this list. 



Sagetsuna. 



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

 out comment. 



Satsdma. 



Blood. 

 Yonemomo. 



Size medium to rather large, broadly conical with a blunt, short 

 point, suture very deep ; color very dark and dull red all over, with 

 greenish dots and an under-color of brown-red ; flesh blood-red, 

 rather coarse and acid, fair to good in quality, tightly clinging to 

 the pit ; midseason ; productive. 



