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The next is the Ogon. That is a yellow plum, too. It has 

 that objection. It is a very pretty plum to look at, but that 

 don't help to sell it much because it is poor quality and don't 

 grow very well. 



I would next name the Red Nagate. You can see from its 

 name it is a red plum. It is pretty fair, but not so good as some 

 others I will name. On account of its being pretty early it will 

 sell, and bring more money, in my opinion, than any of the 

 Japanese plums I can try. I have great faith in that plum. I 

 have 1,700 of them planted, and I don't know if somebody 

 don't stop me but I shall plant some more. It is a good seller, 

 and it will grow large enough if you grow it properly. It hasn't 

 a very rich color. The time you pick it has a good deal to do 

 with the color. Sometimes you can get a better color by leaving 

 it on the tree awhile. 



The Abundance is a fair plum, but it is so soft and juicy I 

 am not planting it any more. Its color is a little ofi for market. 



Now I will name the Burbank. Here is a plum that in my 

 opinion is one of the most wonderful varieties yet. I want that 

 plum for canning, but I don't think my wife cans them. She 

 likes something else. It is like the man who kissed the lady of 

 color. There is no accounting for tastes. But that plum is 

 one of the best of the whole lot. If you take care of it and 

 thin it out properly it will bear for you every year, but otherwise 

 it will bear every other year. You have probably heard it said 

 that it was a good keeping plum, but it rots the worst for me. 

 It doesn't rot badly. That is, it does not rot so as to destroy 

 the crop. I was surprised over in the New Jersey Horticultural 

 Society by hearing a man there say that Japanese plums rotted 

 so badly. He meant generally, of all varieties, according to 

 his statement. That isn't so. I live in New Jersey, about 

 five miles north of Princeton, and the Burbank is the only one 

 that has ever rotted with me. 



The next is what I call the Chabot. That is a plum that 

 for some reason has not come to the front. It is one of the best 

 in everyway that you have a mind to look at it. It seems to me 

 that it is a plum that will come to the front after awhile. 

 Its qualities must bring it there. It is a good plum, has a good 

 color and is a handsome plum to look at. Fine in quality in 



