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Burbank has been able to adapt itself to more 

 varied conditions than any other plum under 

 cultivation. 



By way of illustration, I may cite a letter- from 

 an extensive grower at North East, Pa., who 

 states that his orchard of Burbank trees survived 

 the extreme cold of the winter of 1912-1913, 

 during which the thermometer registered as low 

 as 30 degrees below zero, and at the usual 

 time in the spring put forth blossoms abundantly 

 that bore their habitual abundant crop of fruit. 



Compare with this the opposite conditions of 

 climate in some of our more southern States and 

 in some sections of Africa where the Burbank is 

 extensively grown and we have a story of re- 

 markable adaptability on the part of this plum, 



THE BLOOD PLUM SATSUMA 



The other notable plant among the twelve 

 seedlings was a representative of the race about 

 which the sailor had written and about which I 

 had read with such interest years before in a 

 San Francisco library. 



This was, in short, a plum with red flesh, some- 

 thing hitherto unknown among the plums of 

 Europe or America. 



Red flesh in a plum is a character so conspic- 

 uous that it is not likely to escape attention even 



