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color, and the tree is a vigorous, thrifty grower. The quality is not of the best, 

 but it is a profitable market variety. Like all European sorts, it is liable to black 

 knot badly. 



The Japanese plums, as a class, have proved their ability to resist the black 

 knot. While here and there a few knots have been found, they are scarce and 

 not serious enough to make any count of. Still, they disprove the claim that the 

 Japs are black knot proof. However free they may be from this trouble, they 

 have a decided susceptibility to the rot. They also set fruit so thickly that it 

 touches all along the limbs. But careful thinning and spraying with Bordeaux 

 mixture will check the rot. Another bad fault is the early blooming of many 

 varieties. A late frost will often catch them and destroy the entire crop. — 

 Green's Fruit Grower. 



JAPAN PLUMS IN COLORADO. 



A correspondent of Green's Fruit Grower says: "I have many varieties of 

 Japan plums growing and have found several that are of no use here, owing to 

 lack of hardiness, both of tree and bud. Red June is all right and should be ex- 

 tensively planted; also Willard and Ogon. These are perfectly hardy and will 

 please all who give them a trial. Burbank is also quite promising. Hale and 

 Wickson no earthly use in Colorado; trees won't stand even zero weather. Sat- 

 suma badly killed this year, though they bore some fine fruit last year. I shall 

 plant largely of Red June and Ogon." Commenting on the above, the editor 

 says: "This report of Japan plums in Colorado will be interesting to people liv- 

 ing in the far West, where the winters are far more severe and the changes of 

 temperature more sudden than in the Eastern and Middle States. At Rochester, 

 N. Y., and wherever the thermometer does not go below ten or twelve degrees 

 below zero, we have found all of the Japan plums named by Mr. Jewett perfectly 

 hardy. We consider the Japan plums as a class, and such varieties in particular 

 as Hale, Wickson, Burbank, Abundance, and Red June, very valuable varieties, 

 and worthy of extensive trial." 



THE HALE JAPAN PLUM. 



This is another one of the creations of Mr. Burbank, the California originator, 

 who has made his name famous as an originator of superior fruits. This 

 variety was purchased by Mr. Hale, a successful fruit-grower, known as the 

 " Georgia peach king." Mr. Hale has great confidence in this variety of plum. He 

 says the quality is superb. It ripens September 15: is of large size and possessed 

 of great beauty. Mr. Hale has planted it largely for market and considers it a 

 profitable market plum. Prof. L. H. Bailey has also tested this plum, and con- 

 siders it of great value on account of its beauty, large size, and fine quality. He 

 says it is delicious, slightly acid, and possessed of a peachy flavor. The color is 

 yellowish red, very attractive. Professor Bailey thinks the quality the best of all 

 Japan plums he has eaten. Luther Burbank places a high estimate on the Hale 

 plum. He says no one who has ever tasted this variety when ripe will ever say 

 any European plum is superior to the Hale. 



A correspondent in Greene county, Missouri, says the Hale variety "seems to 

 be perfectly hardy everywhere, so far as we can learn. It is a tremendous 

 grower, and grows later in the season than most of the other Japan plums. Like 

 the Satsuma and Wickson it blooms rather early, and therefore is likely to be 

 caught occasionally by late spring frosts. Yet it is of such high quality that it 

 is worth testing everywhere where any of the Japan plums can be grown." 



SOMETHING ABOUT THE CHABOT. 



The Chabot plum, also known as the Bailey, Chase, and Yellow Japan, is, 

 according to Prof. L. H. Bailey, deserving of much praise. The tree is a strong, 



