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HalncK'k. — Size niodiuin, roundish conieal; color yellow, shaded with reddish purple; 

 finality fair only. Ripens a few days later than Burbank. The tree is an upright, 

 i.li.L.'litly sprcadinjr <rrowcr, with rcddisli hrown shoots. Requires further trial. 



Burbank. — A vijroruus. raiiij)ant <:rower, requiriny severe lieadinj: in to keep it within 

 bounds. The fruit is medium to larjre. roundisli, tajjcring slightly toward the apex, 

 of quite good quality. Valuable for market. Late August. 



Chase. — A medium sized, roundish ovate plum, dark, dull red in color, of fair to good 

 quality. Ripens about Avith Burbank. A tlirifly grower and an abundant bearer. Of 

 value for market purposes. 



Hale. — A medium to large, light yellow plum tinged with red. Of fine quality. The 

 tree is a very vigorous, upright, spreading grower. Not so hardy as Abundance and 

 Burbank. which quite likely may be accounted for by the fact that it grows late into 

 the season and frequently does not ripen its wood well. The light color and tender 

 texture of the fruit render it of questionable value for shipping purposes. Five year 

 old trees have fruited very sparingly. Early September. * 



Long Fruit. — A very early red plum of small size and poor quality. Not valuable. 



:Maru. — Size small' to medium, roundish: color dark red with many yellow dots; 

 quality poor. Of little Aalue. 



Ogon. — A yellow, early ripening plum of low quality, and rather unattractive appear- 

 ance. 



Red June. — Tree a fairly vigorous grower and an abundant bearer. The fruit is of 

 medium size, cordate, elongated at apex : color red : quality quite good : season late 

 July. The best Japan plum on trial, ripening before Abundance. Valuable for early 

 market. 



Satsuma. — A medium to large, roundish plum, dark purplish red in color, of very 

 good quality. The fiesh of this variety is dark purple. The tree is a vigorous, up- 

 right, spreading grower. Not so hardy as some of the Japan kinds, but an abundant, 

 regular liearer under ordinary conditions. The trees froze quite badly during the 

 winter of 1898-9. but recovered sutliciently to bear a full crop this season. A valuable 

 variety for culinary and market purposes. Quite free from rot. Late August. 



Wickson.— One of the largest and handsomest of the Japan plums. Color yellowish 

 amber, well overlaid with dark red: quality quite good: keeps in perfect condition 

 for some time after picking. The tree is a close, upright grower, strikingly like 

 Prunus Simoni, which variety is thought by some horticulturists to have entered 

 into the cross which gave the Wickson, although Luther Burbank, the originator, 

 claims it to be a cross between Burbank and Kelsey. Here the tree behaves much 

 like Simoni, tlie bark begins to take on a dark, unhealthy appearance as the tree 

 gets age, and the lower buds die out along the branches leaving only a tuft of leaves 

 at the extremity. Much more tender in Imd than Abundance and Burbank, and does 

 not bear regularly like these varieties. It does not appear very promising for mar- 

 ket purposes. 



Willard. — Roundish oblong, red, ripens in late July. The quality is so poor as to 

 render the variety almost worthless. 



Yosebe (Earliest of All). — The first phnu to ripen on the station grounds. Small, 

 roundish conical: color red; quality poor. Has little to commend it aside from earliness. 



GRAPES. 



There are one hundred and fifty varieties of grapes in the station collection. Quite 

 a large number of these are crosses between European grapes and some of the American 

 species. To tliis class belong the Rogers' hybrids and others. While finer quality 

 has in many instances been secured, the vinifera cross has always brought to the new 

 variety thus originated more or less undesirable characteristics. Here these hybrids 

 fruit sparsely, mildew badly, and many of them are inclined to be tender, weak 

 growers. While a few are worthy of a place in the home collection, none are con- 

 sidered very desirable for market purposes. 



The varieties which are best adapted for general cultivation in this climate are 

 those which have pure, or at least a preponderance, of native blood as Winehell, 

 Diamond, Worden, Niagara, Concord and Delaware. 



