PLUMS FROM EASTERN AND 

 WESTERN SOURCES 



MATERIAL FROM THE ORIENT 



CLEARLY to apprehend the conditions of 

 the problem that confronted me when I 

 first undertook on a comprehensive scale to 

 put my ideas as to plant development into execu- 

 tion, it is desirable to note very briefly the char- 

 acteristics of the different races of plums that 

 were brought to the Santa Rosa melting pot. 

 Let me outline them. 



Reference has already been made more than 

 once to the Japanese seedlings. The plums from 

 this source, like those from every other, typify in 

 many respects the people among whom they were 

 developed. Modified to meet the needs of an 

 island people occupying a relatively small terri- 

 tory which nevertheless compasses many degrees 

 of latitude, the Japanese plums differ a good 

 deal among themselves as to their hardiness. But 

 in general they are rapid growers, with early and 

 abundant bearing qualities, and unusual adapta- 



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