366. State Horticultural Society. 



in the market from one to two weeks after being picked from the tree, in 

 fair eating condition. 



The Best Sorts. — Eed June, Abundance and Burbank are the most 

 satisfactory of the well-tested varieties. Satsuma needs more maturity 

 of tree before coming into full bearing, for while the first three named 

 will fruit freely two or three years after planting, Satsuma requires 

 about five. Of the newer sorts, Wickson is the largest and mosj attractive 

 in appearance, while the Hale is best in quality of all the Japans; but 

 these two varieties and th« Satsuma are extra early bloomers, and on this 

 account, more liable to be caught by late frosts in spring than some of 

 the others. Of other well-tested sorts, Willard and Berckmans should 

 be rejected as far too poor in quality to be worthy of propagation. Ogon 

 and Normand, both yellow varieties, are vigorous and productive trees, 

 but not very high in quality. Chabot, sometimes known as "Yellow 

 Japan," "Chase," etc., is a late ripening plum of fine appearance and good 

 quality. The Gold is a small, weak-growing tree, with fruit somewhat 

 like the Ogon, only not so good in quality. 



Many new varieties are being tested; probably some of them will 

 prove of greater value than those we already have, and an orchardist will 

 not go astray in planting the best ones here mentioned. Every one who 

 owns a family fruit garden in the central northern states makes a big 

 mistake if he does not have a good number of these trees on his grounds, 

 for the best of the Japan plums can be grown almost as cheaply and 

 abundantly as the most common apples. — From Rural N"ew Yorker. 



