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Soc. Rpt. 94. 1895. 7. Cornell Sta. Bui. 106:51, 58. 1896. 8. Ibid. 139:40, 44. 1897. 9. Am. 

 Pom. Soc. Cat. 2b. 1897. 10. CorneH Sia. Bu/. 175:145. 1899. 11. Waugh PZitw Cwft. 136. 1901. 

 12. Ga. Hon. Soc. Rpt. 13. 1904. 13. Mass. Sta. An. Rpt. 17:160. 1905. 14. Ohio Sta. Bid. 162: 

 250, 254, 255, 256, 257. 1905. 15. Ga. Sta. Bui. 68:10, 30, 32, 2,^. 1905. 



Hattonkin No.i. 3, 4, 7. Haltankin No.i. 5. Hattonkin 7, 11. Hattankio 7. Hattankio 

 ?i. Hattankio No.i, 6, 9, 12, 15. Hattonkin No.i. 2. Mikado 10, 11, 12, 15. Normand 4, 5, 

 7, 8, 14. Normand Yellow 2, 3. Normand Japan 3. Normand's Japan 4, 5. Normand Yellow 

 4, s, 7. Normand ?is. White Kelsey 10, 11, 15. F<?iiiio 10, 11, 15. 



Georgeson is not worth the trouble it has caused pomologists in straight- 

 ening out its nomenclature; and Professor Georgeson deserves to have 

 his name attached to a far better pliim. The rich yellow color of the fruit 

 makes this a particularly handsome plum, but here praises end. The flesh 

 is so astringent and clings so tenaciously to the stone as to unfit the variety 

 for either dessert or culinary use. Moreover, the fruits are exceedingly 

 variable in color, size and shape, in the last character ranging from flatfish 

 to round, with sometimes round and sometimes pointed apex. The tree 

 has too much of the sprawling habit of Burbank to make it a good orchard 

 plant. This plum, and those that have been confused with it, can be spared 

 without great loss to American pomology. 



Georgeson was imported by H. H. Berger & Company, San Francisco, 

 California, and brought to notice chiefly by J. L. Normand, Marksville, 

 Lotoisiana, who named it for Professor C. C. Georgeson, then of Man- 

 hattan, Kansas, a student of Japanese fruits. In the Georgia Hortictil- 

 tural Society Report for 1889, L. A. Berckmans mentions two types of 

 Hattankio, one of which may be this variety. Normand, in 1891, said 

 that he received two varieties of Hattonkin from different sources and in 

 order to separate them he numbered the earlier, No. i, the later No. 2. 

 Bailey and Kerr, however, in 1894, published Hattonkin No. i as a 

 synonym of Georgeson and Hattonkin No. 2, the later, as a sjmonym 

 of the Kerr. The Georgia Horticultural Society accepted this latter 

 nomenclatixre in their report published in 1895. The Mikado, White 

 Kelsey and Yeddo as tested by this Station have proved to be identical 

 with Georgeson, but as tested by Kerr,' the Mikado alone is the same. 

 Normand, which is said to have been imported and introduced in 1891 by 

 J. L. Normand, is also indistinguishable from this variety. In 1897, 

 Georgeson was placed on the American Pomological Society fruit catalog list. 



* Mr. Kerr writes: "As I have them here, Yeddo and White Kelsey are the same. If there 

 is a difference between Georgeson and Mikado, I have failed to discover it, but Georgeson and White 

 Kelsey or Yeddo are plainly distinct. The fonner is larger, rounder and more greenish in skin color." 



