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the advantages of Abundance, the fruit of Burbank is of better 

 quality, more handsomely colored, keeps and ships better, is 

 less susceptible to brown-rot; and ripens a week or more later, 

 which in most seasons is a slight advantage. The trees are dis- 

 tinguished from those of all other plums by their low spread- 

 ing habit, flat top, and drooping branches. Burbank was pro- 

 duced from a plum pit sent to Luther Burbank by a Japanese 

 agent in 1883. 



Tree large, vigorous, distinguished by its low sprawling habit and flat 

 open top, very productive, healthy. Fruit early; variable in size, large, 1% 

 inches in diameter, round-conic, halves equal; cavity deep, abrupt, regular; 

 suture shallow, apex roundish ; color dark red over a yellow ground, mottled ; 

 bloom heavy; dots numerous, large, russet, conspicuous; stem % inch long, 

 glabrous, parting readily from the fruit; flesh deep yellow, juicy, tender, 

 firm, sweet, aromatic; good; stone clinging, round-oval, turgid, blunt but 

 sharp-tipped, rough. 



SECTION IV. FRUITS GLOBULAR, NOT CORDATE 

 (NATIVE PLUMS) 



Group 8. Fruits Very Late 



592. Forest Garden. P. hortulana Mineri. — Forest Garden is 

 widely distributed in the Central West, where both in tree and 

 fruit characters it seems adapted to the needs of climate and 

 soil. The fruit is late, maturing at a good time for shipping, 

 for which it is further adapted by tough skin and firm flesh ; 

 and, while not preeminently well fitted for dessert, it has a spicy 

 flavor that makes it pleasant eating and admirably adapted for 

 culinary purposes. This variety is from a wild plum found in 

 the woods near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, by Thomas Hare, about 

 1862. 



Tree large, very vigorous, spreading, flat-topped, hardy, bearing young. 

 Fruit late; 1% inches in diameter, large, round-ovate, compressed, halves 

 equal; cavity shallow, wide, flaring; suture a line; apex roundish or pointed; 

 color dark red; bloom light; dots numerous, russet, conspicuous; stem slen- 

 der, % inch long, glabrous; flesh dark golden-yellow, juicy, coarse, fibrous, 

 melting, sweet next the skin, sour toward the center, with a strong and 

 peculiar flavor, aromatic ; good ; stone clinging, oval, turgid, blunt, flattened 

 at the base, ending in an abrupt but sharp point at the apex, smooth. 



