THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



337 



Fruit very late; of medium size, roundish, bright purphsh-red with thin blue 

 bloom; suture distinct; cavity shallow; stem of moderate length and thickness; flesh 

 yellow, with a vinous flavor; fair to good; freestone. 



SATSUMA 



Primus triflora 



uGard.Mon. 366, 367. 1887. 2. !7. S. O. ^. i?/>/. 652, PI. I fig., 636. 1887. 3. Card. & For. 

 1:471. 1888. 4. Bailey Ann. Hort. 103. 1889. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 105, 106, 125. 1891. 

 6. Ga. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 54. 1892. 7. Cornell Sta. Bui. 62:29. '894. 8. Rev. Hort. 458. 1894. 

 9. Ga. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 96. 1895. 10. Guide Prat. 165, 366. 1895. 11. Cornell Sta. Bui. 106:46, 

 53. 1896. 12. Ala. Col. Sta. Bui. 85:446. 1897. 13. Cornell Sta. Bui. 139:38, 42. 1897. 14. 

 Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 26. 1897. 15. Mich. Sta. Bui. 169:243, 250. 1899. 16. Cornell Sta. Bid. 

 175:151. 1899. 17. Ohio Sta. Bui. 113:158. 1899. 18. Waugh Plum Cult. 141. 1901. 19. 

 Mich. Sta. Bui. i&T-T], 80. 1901. 20. Ga. Sta. Bui. 68:14, 33, 34. 1905. 21. De Vries PI. Br. 

 170. 1907. 



Beni Smono No. 4 ?6. Blood Plum 7, 9, 16, 18, 20. Blood Plum? i. Blood Plum No. 4 ?9, 

 13. Blood Plum No. 4 ?ii. Honsmomo 11. Honsmomo ?9, 11. Japan Blood Plum 3. San- 

 guine 10. Satsuma Blood 4. Yonemomo 5, 7, 9, 16, 20. Yonesmomo 5, 20. 



There is a group of several varieties of Triflora plums unique in having 

 the flesh deep red in color and very firm and juicy. Of these red-fleshed 

 plums, Satsuma was the first to be introduced into fruit-growing in Amer- 

 ica and is one of the parents of most of the others. While the fruit is not 

 as large nor as handsome in color as in some of its offspring, it is still one 

 of the best varieties for quality of fruit and its trees are possibly as good 

 as those of any of the other sorts of red-fleshed Trifloras. Satsuma, besides 

 being one of the best of its class in quality for either dessert or culinary- 

 purposes, keeps and ships ver}' well and if the plums are of sufficient size 

 and have been allowed to color properl}^ the variety makes a good showing 

 on the markets. Too often, however, it is so unattractive as it reaches 

 the market that it does not sell well. In the South the plums are said to 

 be much attacked by brown -rot but they are not more susceptible here 

 than other plums. The trees are rather above the average for the species 

 in size, habit, health, hardiness and productiveness though they bear 

 sparingly when yotmg. They bloom early in the season and are distin- 

 guished from other Triflora sorts by having many spurs and short 

 branches along the main branches. Satsuma might possibly be found 

 worth grow'ing commercially in a very small way in some parts of 

 the State. 



Satsuma was raised from the same lot of plum pits from which the 

 Burbank came, the seeds having been sent to Luther Burbank by a Japanese 



