Japanese Plums. 45 



Introduced bj 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 indeiinite that I renamed it for Mr. 

 Berckmans, who, to distinguish it from another variety which was 

 also received under the name of Botan (see remarks on Yellow- 

 fleshed Botan, under Abundance), called it White-fleshed Botan. 

 Mr. Berckmans considers it poor in quality, but as it is grown in 

 the north it compares well with Abundance ; and even the speci- 

 mens which Mr. Berckmans has sent me seem to me to be superior in 

 quality to the Abundance which he has sent. Deeper and duller red 

 than Abundance, lacks the point characteristic of that variety, and 

 the flesh is mucli drier. Yery productive. Figured in Bulletin 62. 



Berger {Munson / Bailey^ Cornell Bull. 62, p. 20, 1894). 



Fruit very small and globular, bright uniform red, with a firm, 

 meaty and sweet yellow flesh and a very small free stone, ripening 

 the middle of July in New York. 



There has been much confusion respecting this plum. Mr. 

 Berckmans once sent it to me without a name, saying that it came 

 from H. H. Berger & Co., of San Francisco, as Bed Nagate. N. S. 

 Piatt sent it from Connecticut as Satsuma, the name under which it 

 was received from Berger. It came from the south (also originally 

 from Berger) as Shiro Smomo. I also have it from western New 

 York, unnamed. T. Y. Munson, Texas, sent specimens which he 

 called the Berger, and I adopted his name and published it in 

 Bulletin 62. He writes as follows of it : '^ The Berger plum is an 

 upright, cherry-like tree. It bears a purple fruit about the size 

 of the Black Tartarian cherry, with meaty flesh, nearly free stone 

 which is as small as the pit of the common Black Morello cherry 

 and much the same shape." It falls from the tree as soon as ripe, 

 leaving the stem on the tree. An interestiiig little fruit for the 

 home garden, but too small for market. There is a picture of it in 

 Bulletin 6ii. See Yosebe. 



Blood : See Satsuma. 



Blood Plum No. 3. 

 " Fruit somewhat smaller than Satsuma, flesh very deep red and 

 juicy, sweet; middle of Jul}- ; tree of very open straggling growth." 

 — P. J. Berckmans^ Catalogue^ 1895. 



