32 THE PLUM IN KANSAS. 



in quality of all the Japans: but these two varieties and the Satsuma are extra 

 early bloomers, and on this account more liable to be caught by late frosts in 

 spring than some of the others. Of other well-tested sorts, Willard and Berck- 

 mans should be rejected as far too poor in quality to be worthy of propagation. 

 Ogon and Normand, both yellow varieties, are vigorous and productive trees, but 

 not very high in quality. Chabot, sometimes known as Yellow Japan, Chase, 

 etc., is a late-ripening plum of fine appearance and good quality. The Gold is a 

 small, weak-growing tree, with fruit somewhat like the Ogon, only not so good 

 in quality. 



Many new varieties are being tested; probably some of them will prove of 

 greater value than those we already have, and an orchardist will not go astray in 

 planting the best ones here mentioned. Every one who owns a family fruit gar- 

 den in the central Northern states makes a big mistake if he does not have a 

 good number of these trees on his grounds, for the best of the Japan plums can 

 be grown almost as cheaply and abundantly as the most common apples.— i?;^/Y/i 

 New Yorker. 



SOME MISSOUKI EXPERIENCES. 



We extract the following discussion over plum varieties from volume 42 (1899) 

 of the Missouri Horticultural Reiiort: 



"Mr. B. (Illinois): I lost 300 trees last winter. I want to know what to re- 

 place with. 



"J. H. K.: My experience in Buchanan county [Missouri] is with the native 

 plums. Eastern and Japan are not profitable. Wild Goose is always profitable. 

 I have the Wolf, Miner, Marianna, Pottawatomie, Marion, and Newman. Wild 

 Goose has paid best. Wolf is a freestone; it rots. Pottawatomie I cannot 

 market at all ; too small. Arkansas Lombard is not very good. Blue Damson is 

 one of the best of the Europeans. Wickson stood the winter; has not fruited. 

 My Blue Damsons are all on their own roots. 



"Professor Whitten: We have about 150 varieties of American, European and 

 Japan plums at the Missouri Experiment Station. No European is worth growing 

 in this state. The best plums for us are the American. I would name Forest 

 Rose, Miner, Wild Goose, Wolf, and Wyant. The latter, fruited only one year, 

 is large and of good quality. Wayland is a good late kind, splendid keepeir. 

 Golden Beauty is yellow, small, good keeper. World Beater makes good jelly 

 and jam. Abundance and Burbank are the best Japs, for Missouri. They rot, 

 but not so bad as the Europeans. 



" J. J. K.: I have twenty-five or thirty varieties of plums. I would name 

 Forest Rose, Poole's Pride, Wild Goose, Pottawatomie, and Robinson, to make 

 money. I sell Wild Goose for $2 per bu.shel. The Abundance is very fine ; as 

 good as the cherries in the old country. 



"Mr. B. (Illinois): I have 100 Burbank. They did not winter-kill. Abun- 

 dance not so hardy. Shropshire Damson half killed. Other Europeans half 

 killed. Wild Goose is the only native variety I grow. It gives a good crop 

 almost every year. I have sprayed nine years for the curculio and rot ; succeeded 

 some years." 



