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Sta. Bui. 169:242, 243, 249, 250. 1899. 10. Cornell Sta. Bill. 175:136. 1899. u. U. S. D. .4. 

 i?/)/. 386. 1901. 12. Waugh P/um Czt//. 140. 1901. 13. Budd-Hansen /Im. //or(. il/aii. 324. 1903. 

 14. Can. Exp. Farm Bui. 43:37. 1903. 15. Mass. Sta. Ann. Rpt. 17:160. 1905. 16. Md. Hort. 

 Soc. Rpt. 85. 1905. 17. Ga. Sta. Bui. 68:5, 32. 1905. 



Botan 14. Hytankayo 11. Long Fruit 3. Nagate no Botankyo 10, 11, 17. Red Kagate i, 2, 

 3, 6, 9. Red Nagate 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 17. Red June 2, 3. Shiro Smomo 2, 4, 7, 11, 12, 14. Shiro 

 Smomo 9. 



Red Jvme is variously estimated by fruit-growers and pomologists. 

 A concensus of the opinions of those who have had actual experience with 

 the variety shows that it closely follows Abundance and Burbank in popu- 

 larity among the Trifloras. The variety is distinguished from all other 

 plums by its fruit -characters ; the plimis are distinctly cordate in shape 

 with a deep cavity and a very pointed apex ; the color is a mottled garnet- 

 red overlaid with thin but very distinct and delicate bloom; the flesh is 

 a light yellow, firm enough to endure transportation well, peculiarly aroma- 

 tized, sweetish and not wholly agreeable in flavor and ranking rather low 

 in quality; the stone adheres tightly to the flesh. The trees are large, 

 vigorous, spreading, hardy, healthy and productive — very good for the 

 species to which the variety belongs. Other good qualities of the variety 

 are that it blooms late for a Triflora, and that the fruits are compara- 

 tively immune to curculio and brown -rot and hang to the trees exceptionally 

 well for an early plum. This is one of the Trifloras that varies in season 

 of ripening, a peculiarity of several of the varieties of this species, but 

 usually the fruits ripen a week or more before Abtmdance. Red June is 

 reported to be somewhat self -sterile and in need of cross-pollination. This 

 variety ought to have value as an early market plum in New York. 



Red June was imported from Japan by H. H. Berger and Company, 

 San Francisco, California, under the name Shiro Smomo, about 1887. 

 Stark Brothers, Louisiana, Missouri, obtained the variety in 1892 and 

 introduced it as the Red June in 1893. In 1897 it was added to the fruit 

 catalog list of the American Pomological Society. The nomenclature of 

 this variety is much confused. The true Japanese Red Nagate (Red Nagate 

 is one of the synonyms of Red Jtme) has red flesh while this one has not; 

 this variety, to which the name Shiro Smomo is most often applied, is not 

 a Smomo plum nor is it white, (Shiro is the Japanese for white) affording 

 another instance of the confusion in the American application of the 

 Japanese names of the Triflora plums. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, hardy, productive, healthy; branches 

 rough, thorny, dark brown, with numerous lenticels of medium size; branchlets slender, 



