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introducer, answer the description. As fruited with us this year on 

 Lombard stock, cions from Normand, it is a midseason chngstone and 

 is indistinguishable from Georgeson. Ripe with us in 1897, Septem- 

 ber 15 to 20. It remains to be determined whether there are two 

 varieties passing under one name, or whether the same variety- 

 behaves differently under different conditions. 



Ogon. 



A handsome, clear yellow, freestone plum, already well known, and 

 fully described in Bulletins 62 and 106, and illustrated in the former. 

 It is very early, ripening at Cornell this year about August 10. It is 

 excellent for canning. The Ogon is generally regarded as a shy 

 bearer, but our little trees were loaded this year. The fruit often 

 cracks badly on the tree. The tree is an upright-spreading strong 

 grower, with very large leaves which did not suft'er from fungus. 



Red June. 



Surely an excellent plum, maintaining the high character — for 

 earliness, beauty and productiveness — which we gave it two years ago. 

 The quality is not so good as that of the Burbank or Chabot. At 

 Cornell this year, trees upon hard clay land ripened tlieir fruits twelve 

 days later than trees upon gravelly loam. 



Red Nagate. 



I think that this name will have to be given up. It is most com- 

 monly applied to the variety which is now properly known as Red 

 June, but we have Chabot under the same name. 



Satsuma. 



One of the best marked of all Japanese plums, the fruit being dark, 

 dull red and the flesh blood-red. It is late, ripening from the middle 

 to the last of September this year. The color of the fruit is against it 

 for a general market plum, but its keeping quahties, and excellence for 

 culinary uses, make it worth a place in the orchard. The quality is 

 austere, until fully ripe, when the fruit becomes fairly sweet. Tree a 

 vigorous spreading-upright grower. Fairly productive with us, but 

 reported unproductive by otherS; 



