FouKTii Report on elAPANESE Plums. 



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We have stock from various sources, amongst others from some of 

 the original trees sent out as Abundance by Lovett. The trees vary 

 in time of ripening, the period ranging over a week or ten days, but 

 they all seem to be indistinguishable. This year the first fruits 

 were ripe on the 5th and 6tli of August. The ordinary, and what I 

 take to be typical Abundance, is shown in Fig. 32 ; also in Fig. 1, 

 Bulletin 106. Some trees, however, produce an inferior grade of 



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32. — Abundance. A good type. Perhaps tJie best Japanese plum. 



fruit, as shown in Fig. 33, but I cannot distinguish that this small 

 fruit is a different variety. This small-fruited type of Al)undance 

 is the one which I distino-uished in our Bulletin 62 as the Babcock. 

 When the Abundance is well thinned, it is certainly an excellent 

 plum and one which most people delight to eat. Its great fault is 

 to overbear, and in that case it is very liable to the fruit-rot fungus. 



