VARIETIES OF PLUMS 1163 



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Arch I hike is one of the leading purple market plums in New 

 York. The qualities that make for it a high place among com- 

 mercial varieties are: large size, handsome color, and firmness of 

 flesh and skin so that it both keeps and ships well. Arch Duke 

 compared with Grand Duke, which is known by all plum growers, 

 is nearly as large, has a thicker neck, the same color, a heavier 

 bloom, higher quality, firmer flesh, is stone free, and ripens earlier. 

 This variety is suitable for both home and market use. 



BAVAY 



Havay is one of the best of the green plums. It is unexcelled 

 for dessert, and it retains its delicious flavor when cooked, making 

 a rather rare combination of a first-rate dessert and a first-rate 

 culinary fruit. It is a good market plum for it both keeps and 

 ships well. The trees bear young, annually, and heavfly, and 

 while not so hardy, so large, so robust, or so long-lived as could be 

 wished, yet in these respects they are superior to most other green 

 plums. Bavay is indispensable in home orchards and can bt 

 recommended for much more general planting in commercial 

 plantations. 



BRADSIIAW 



Bradshaw leads all other plums in number of trees in New York, 

 but its great popularity is hardly justified. The trees grow slowly 

 and are tardy in coming in bearing; the fruit is not especially high 

 in quality, and in many regions is attacked by brown rot too freely. 

 To offset these faults, the trees are large and well formed, bear 

 regularly and heavily, are hardy, robust, and healthy, and the 

 plums are large and handsome and ship well. The variety, too, is 

 seldom badly attacked by San Jose scale. The value of the crop 

 is greatly lessened in New York because it ripens in the midst 

 of the peach season. It should be planted only for commercial 

 plantations. 



BURBAXK 



Inirhank is the chief rival of Abundance among Japanese plums 

 in Xew York. The fruit of Burbank is of better quality, is hand- 

 somer, keeps and ships better, and is less susceptible to brown 

 rot. The fruit ripens a week later than Abundance, which in 

 most seasons is an advantage. The trees of Burbank are dis- 



