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but sometimes tending to yellowish red ; llesh very firm and irieaty, 

 dull yellow, rich but with an aromatic almond-like flavor, cling, the 

 pit small. The tree is a very narrow upright grower with narrow 

 yellowish green leaves. The fruit is borne far dowm on the old 

 wood and not in clusters. Although it is said by Mr. Burbank that 

 this plum was grown from Burbank seed fertilized by Kelsey pollen, 

 I believe that it has Simonii blood. The character of the foliage 

 and bloom, the habit of the tree and its method of fruit-bearing 

 together with the texture of the flesh, all point to Simonii as one of 

 its parents.* The tree is perfectly hardy with us. It impresses us 

 as being a shy bearer, although our trees are not yet of suflicient 

 age to enable us to have tested this point. It certainly does not 

 come into full bearing as early as other varieties of Japanese plums. 

 From its habit of bearing far down on the old wood and the com- 

 paratively small amount of wood surface which it makes, it promises 

 not to be a verv prolific variety. Prunus Simonii itself has been 

 a shy bearer with us, except one year when the trees bore exceed- 

 ingly full and the branches needed to be propped. It is possible, 

 therefore, that w^hen the AVickson trees arrive at a greater age, they 

 may bear full crops. Most of our Wickson fruits — of which we 

 had few — Avere ripe on the 8th of September; some of them were 

 ripe five days before that time. 



IT. Chabot. — Fig. 39. 



Bailey, Yellow Japan, Furugiya, O-Hatankyo. TJchi Beni of some. 



Fruit medium to large, oblong-conical, lacking the point, the 

 suture usually pronounced, the stem thick and strong ; color deep 

 orange, heavily overlaid with light cherry red or the sunny side 

 becoming deep dark red, with a whitish bloom and many minute 

 golden yellow dots ; flesh soft to firm, yellow, with no almond 

 flavor, sweet, of excellent quality, cling ; ripe with us this year, flt 

 for eating, from the Tth to the 10th of September, and ready for 

 shipping a week before that time. The Chabot is a strong, upright 

 grower, prolific, the fruit handsome, good and long keeping. It is 

 one of the best of the Japanese plums. 



* An opiu'on shared by Professor Waugh. See " Hybrid Plums," Bull. 67, Vt. 

 Exp. Sta. 



