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THE PLUM IN KANSAS. 



tember. Imported from Japan by Mr. Chabot, of Berkeley, CaL, but introduced 

 to the trade by Luther Burbank in 1886. Especially valuable for drying. 



Delaware. Roundish conical, medium in size : purplish bronze in color, with 

 a white bloom: flesh wine color, juicy, combining many flavors. Trees semi- 

 dwarf: very productive. Catalogued among Luther Burbank's novelties, 1893. 

 Said to be a cross of Satsuma and Kelsey. 



The following record of the actual dates of blooming of the Japa- 

 nese plums has been prepared for me by J. W. Kerr, of the Chesa- 

 peake peninsula. It will be seen that some of them bloom as early as 

 P. pissardii and P. simonii, which are known as very early bloom- 

 ers. 



Some, at least, of the Japanese plums are much subject to fruit- 

 rot, and this appears to be specially true of the Abundance, particu- 

 larly when it is not well thinned. Mr. Kerr writes me under date of 

 Julv 5, 1892, that "there is not a single variety of the Japanese plums 

 that is holding its fruit except Botan, and even they are rotting very 

 rapidly, and I doubt if a perfect specimen will go through. Bordeaux 

 mixture seems to avail nothing as a remedy for the rot. Notwith- 

 standing failures in general this year, I have begun shipping Chicka- 

 saws, of which I have a good crop." These plums are evidently not 

 more subject to rot than many varieties of Domesticas, however, and 

 I doubt if they are so much injured, as a rule, as the Lombard. 



It has been said that these i^lums, or some of them, are curculio 

 proof ; but this is an error. Yet they often appear to escape much of 

 the excessive injury which falls to the Domestica varieties. The 

 following note from the Rural Neio Yorker bears upon this point. I 



