88 Plums and Plum Culture 



Others have been selected, but have thus far been 

 propagated only by numbers or other temporary 

 designations. 



The Pacific Plum. — One of the most interesting of 

 our native species is the Pacific plum, Primus sub- 

 cordata. This grows in the elevated regions of southern 

 Oregon and northern California. It has been noticed 

 and the fruit gathered by settlers, and attempts have 

 been made to bring it into cultivation after the same 

 manner as all the other prominent native species. Pro- 



BASSETT 

 The best cultivated type of the the Beach Plum 



fessor Wickson says of it:* "This must be regarded 

 as one of the most useful of our native fruits. Even 

 now, when the plum varieties of all the world have been 

 introduced, residents in some of the Sierra regions of 

 California, where an excellent variety (kclloggii) 

 abounds, prefer, it to the cultivated fruit, both for eat- 

 ing and for preserving and jelly making." 



Luther Burbank also considers this a promising 

 type, and uses it freely in his Hybridizing experiments. 



*California Fruits, 3d ed., 39. 1899. 



