136 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



CHAPTER m 



LEADING VARIETIES OF PLUMS. 

 ABUNDANCE 



Prunus triflora 



I. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 96. 1887. 2. Am. Gard. 9:360. 1888. 3. Ga. Hon. Soc. Rpt. 51, 52, 

 S3, 99. 1S89. 4. Bailey Ann. Hort. 103. 1889. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 106, 125. 1891. 6. Am. 

 Gard. 13:700. 1892. 7. Rural N. Y. 52:666. 1893. 8. Cornell Sta. Bui. 62:19, 27, 32. 1894. 

 9. Tex. Sta. Bui. 32:488. 1894. 10. Rev. Hort. i6o. 1895. 11. Mich. Sta. Bid. 118:52. 1895. 

 12. Cornell Sta. Bui. 106:41, 43, 44, 47, 48, 49. 1896. 13. Va. Sta. Bid. 67:96. 1896. 14. Cornell 

 Sta. Bui. 131:195. 1897. 15. Ibid. 139:37, 38, 39, 40. 1897. 16. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 26. 1897. 



17. Cornell Sta. Bui. 175:141, 142, 143. 1899. 18. Waugh Plum Cult. 132, 135. 1901. 19. Mich. 

 Sta. Bui. 169:242, 2^8. 1899. 20. Ont. Fruit Exp. Sta. Rpt. I $. 1902. 21. Ohio Sta. Bid. 162:2 $4, 

 255- 1905- 22. Texas Nur. Co. Cat. 9. 1907. 23. Ga. Sta. Bui. 68:7, 28. 1905. 



Abundance 7. Babcock (?) 15, 17. Babcock 12, 16, 18. Botan i, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10. Botan 12, 16, 



18. Botankio 12. Botankio 3. Burbank No. 2. 11, 12. Chase 12. Chase 14, 15, 17. Douglas 

 9, 15, 18. Douglas 17. Hattankio 8, 15. Hattonkin 12. Hytankayo 8, 9. Munson 8. Munson 

 9, 18. Oriole 22. Sweet Botan 7. Sweet Botan 15. Yellow Fleshed Botan 3, 6, 8, 17, 23. Yellow 

 Fleshed Botan 5. Yellow Japan 12. Yellow Japan 8, 14. 



Though Abundance has been in America only a quarter of a century, 

 it is now about as well known as any other plum, being probably the 

 best known of the Triflora plums. The two chief assets which have given 

 the variety its great popularity so quickly are adaptability to a wide 

 diversity of soils and climates and, as its name implies, abundance of fruit, 

 for it bears not only heavily but yearly. As a market plum Abimdance 

 has been overplanted since it ships and keeps poorly, is much subject to 

 brown-rot, matures unevenly and drops rather too readily as it ripens. 

 Whether for market or home use, the fruit of this variety should be picked 

 before it is quite ripe as it develops in flavor best when so picked and the 

 dropping and rot are thus avoided to some extent. It is an exceedingly 

 variable plum and imdoubtedly several well marked strains could be se- 

 lected, some of which are not as hardy or otherwise as valuable as others. 

 While Abundance has passed the heyday of its popularity it is still one of 

 the most desirable of the Triflora plums. 



This variety was imported from Japan by Luther Burbank in 1884, 

 and was introduced by John T. Lovett, Little Silver, New Jersey, under 

 the name Abundance, in 1888. A large number of Japanese pltims that 

 have since been introduced have proved to be either identical or so nearly 

 like the Abundance that much confusion has arisen. Abundance was 

 first known as Botan, but that name was dropped as it refers to a group 



