176 HOME FRUIT GROWER 



TENNANT. A. large, handsome, purple variety, rather better than most 

 other varieties of its color. Fruit ripens late (before Italian Prune) 

 and during a rather long season, clingstone. Trees sturdy, hardy, 

 healthy and prolific. Popular for prune making on the Pacific Coast. 

 Little known in the East. 



TRAGEDY. An attractive purple Pacific Coast variety, scarcely known in 

 the East. Fruit early, short season, fairly large, juicy, tender, sweet, 

 clingstone. Trees sturdy, hardy and prolific. 



WASHINGTON. See Reine Claude. 



YELLOW GAGE. See Reine Claude. 



JAPANESE GROUP 



ABUNDANCE. Early, short season, medium size, mottled red, yellow- 

 fleshed, very juicy, fairly sweet, moderately good, clingstone. One of 

 the most widely adaptable of the Japanese varieties. 



BURBANK. A better quality, slightly later and much longer season variety 

 than Abundance. Medium to large, red, clingstone. Tree rather 

 sprawling, very brittle, therefore subject to breakage unless trained 

 and pruned with special care. 



KELSEY. Latest and largest Japanese variety. So tender to frost it is 

 unsafe to plant in cold sections. Successful in the South and in Cali- 

 fornia whence the Eastern markets are supplied. Greenish-yellow, 

 meaty fruits, of very good quality. Stone almost free in well-ripened 

 fruits. 



OCTOBER (Purple). A large, handsome, Japanese clingstone variety. 

 Passable for dessert but better for culinary uses. Trees sturdy, healthy, 

 but slow to begin bearing and uncertain croppers. 



SATSUMA. A large, red, firm, but juicy-fleshed, clingstone, Japanese 

 variety, one of the best of its group for culinary or dessert purposes. 

 Trees medium size, fairly hardy and prolific though a little slow to 

 begin bearing. 



WICKSON. Perhaps the largest of all Plums, certainly of Japanese varie- 

 ties. Handsome, purplish-red, pleasant-flavored, firm-fleshed fruit, 

 which ripens from early mid-season till rather late, clingstone. Trees 

 and blossoms tender to cold. In California a leader among Japanese 

 varieties. In Georgia and other Southern States also popular. Not 

 safe to plant in the Northeastern States. 



POMEGRANATE 



In a strip of warm 

 coast, from the Carolinas 

 to Texas, thence west- 

 ward to California, some 

 of the better varieties of 

 Pomegranate should be 

 included in family plant- 

 ings, first, because of the 

 beauty of the rather large 

 Fig. 111. -The Pomegranate shrub and the waxy coral 



