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numerous other remote regions of the globe, as 

 they are in the State where they originated, 

 something of the economic importance of the 

 experiments in plum development will be 



revealed. 



SPECIFIC RESULTS 



Some glimpses have been given in earlier 

 chapters of the methods of experimentation 

 through which particular races of new plums 

 have been developed; and fuller details of the 

 methods and results will be given in subsequent 

 chapters of the present volume. Here let me 

 briefly outline some of the earlier results of my 

 effort at hybridizing the diversified races that 

 were brought together for the purpose of these 

 comprehensive experiments. 



I have said that some notable results were 

 obtained almost from the outset. 



As illustrating this, it may be recalled that, 

 whereas the first hybridizations between the 

 Japanese seedlings and plums of European and 

 American stock were made in 1888, there were 

 no fewer than six varieties of hybrids in my 

 orchard in the season of 1893, only five years 

 later, that were considered worthy of introduc- 

 tion and that were able to take rank at once as 

 superior in some regards to any plums at that 

 time known. 



