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thinning to bring it to perfection. Abundance ripened at Ithaca in 

 1895 the first week in August, over two weeks ahead of Lombard, 

 a week ahead of Burbank, three weeks later than Yosebe, two weeks 

 later than Willard, and a week to ten days later than Red June. 



I do not know if the Yellow-fleshed Botan is identical with 

 Abundance. This name was given by P. J. Berckmans to distin- 

 guish a variety received by him from Luther Burbank under the 

 name of Botan. There were two varieties in the batch, and the 

 other, with a lighter-colored and sweeter flesh was named, b}^ Mr. 

 Berckmans, Sweet Botan, This latter is now called Berckmans. 

 When Mr. Lovett sent out his Abundance, it was pronounced to be 

 identical with Yellow-fleshed Botan by Mr. Berckmans. " I have 

 seen trees that were received from Lovett," Mr. Berckman writes, 

 ^' whose fruit was identical with Yellow-fleshed Botan." The 

 Yellow-fleshed Botan fruits which Mr. Berckmans has sent me 

 several times, seem to differ from the Abundance, as grown here, 

 in the yellower color, less prominent point at the apex, and shorter 

 stem, but these differences may all be due to climate or other local 

 environments. 1 often notice that plums may be sliorter-stemmed 

 when grown in the south than when grown in the north. In speci- 

 mens which I have received from Berckmans, the Yellow-fleshed 

 Botan has a lighter-colored flesh than the Berckmans. We have 

 ti'ees of the Yellow-fleshed Botan growing, and shall soon be able 

 to determine its relationship to Abundance. 



Babcock {Bailey^ Cornell Bull. 62,^9. 19, 1891:). 

 Botankio and Botan, of some. 



" Medium to large (l|^-lf in. diam.), round-conical ; skin yellow 

 overlaid with purplish red, rather thick ; flesh deep orange and 

 solid, a little coarse, sweet, of good flavor and quality; cling; rather 

 late, 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." — 

 Btdletin 62. 



1 have never seen a fruit which I could refer to this variety. I 

 substituted the name Babcock for the loosely applied Botankio, 



