44 Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



drawing my descriptioc very largely from notes furnislied me by 

 Colonel Babcock, Our own variety bought as Botankio turns out 

 to be Abundance. 



Bailey {J. L. Normandy Catalogue^ 1891). 



" Large, nearly globular, with only a slight tendency to become 

 conical; ground-color rich orange, overspread with light and 

 bright cherry red, and showing many minute orange dots; flesh 

 thick and melting, yellow, of excellent quality; cling. Tree strong 

 and upright, productive. Closely related to Burbank, but rounder 

 and mostly lai-ger, and a week or more later. 



" Imported by J. L. Normand, Marksville, Louisiana, and by him 

 named and introduced in 1891. Figured in American Gardening, 

 xiii, (1892), p. 700. There appears to be another Bailey plum of 

 the domestica type. I know it only from a plate made by Dewey 

 of Rochester, and who declares that it 'has not failed to bear for 

 twenty-five successive years.' The Rochester Lithographing Co., 

 successors to Dewey, write me that this plate was in Dewey's stock 

 before 1886, but that they know nothing further about it." — 

 JBtilletin 62. 



I have not yet fruited this variety, but I have received it from 

 several sources. Mr. Berckmans regards it as identical with 

 Chabot. It is also remarkably like the Chase and Hoyo Smomo. 

 It is possible that all these four names belong to the same plum. 

 It is evidently a good plum, whatever its proper name may be 

 found to be. 



Berckmans {Bailey^ Cornell Bull. 62, p. 20, 189-1). 



True Sweet Botan. 

 Sweet Botan. 

 AVhite-fleshed Botan. 

 Botan, of some. 



Medium (or slightly above if thinned), broadly and obtusely 

 conical and somewhat angular in cross-section ; dull deep blood red 

 if ripened in the sun, sometimes with yellowish patches on the 

 shaded side ; flesh very sweet, moderately juicy or dry ; cling or 

 semi-cling; ripens with Abundance or just ahead of it. Becomes 

 too dry when very ripe. 



