AN EXAMPLE OF UNIFORM 

 RIPENING 



The Red Ball plum shown here 

 approaches the ideal for extra early 

 home and market purposes, which re- 

 quires that the plum not only ripen 

 evenly throughout its flesh, but that 

 the individual fruits ripen simultane- 

 ously. With such a fruit the entire 

 crop may be gathered at once an 

 obvious advantage to the shipper. 

 (About three-fourths natural size.) 



