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Hybrid varieties, which cost less to produce and are of more 

 attractive color. Most of the Americana varieties depend on 

 the culinary art to produce a market, but I believe a limited 

 supply would always find a ready market at paying prices, 

 although the long fruiting season habit of these varieties makes 

 picking more expensive. 



Of the four original useful Japanese varieties, x\bundance, 

 Burbank, Chabot and Satsuma, probably Burbank will prove 

 least valuable in future, but there will be a strong market 

 demand for the other three for some time to come at paying 

 prices. 



Of the newer varieties October Purple is most attractive to us, 

 with possibly Gonzales as second choice. 



Many of Mr. Burbank's new inventions are promising, but 

 promising is not always performing, leaving the promise in 

 worse shape than if it had never been made. 



Two early varieties were introduced, one tmder the name of 

 Maru, the other as Wasse Botankio (now renamed Lutts). 

 These are entirely out of the way before Red June begins to 

 ripen, are good lookers, but small size, and the Maru is quite 

 eatable, and would probably sell to a limited extent, and until 

 we get something better they may do very well for early plums. 

 With us the Red June lacks so much in flavor that it has not 

 been satisfactory. It is not a rapid growing tree and it is not 

 productive. I am inclined to think that the Burbank is one of 

 the plums we will soon get through with. Then there is the 

 America. This giant plum is about an inch in diameter at its 

 base, and the quality is about like that of the average Americana. 

 The Apple plum can be sold in any market for the Satsuma. It 

 is a trifle more blunt in shape. It ripens a little early and rots 

 a good deal worse, but the tree, I think, is a little hardier, more 

 of the Burbank style of tree, and it is a plum which I think will 

 prove fairly satisfactory where the Satsuma is not doing very 

 well. The October Purple has proven excellent in quality and 

 large in size. The color, however, was a long way from purple. 



The Hale plum rotted very badly with us until this year. We 

 never have grown a respectable crop of it before. This year the 

 fruit set quite heavily and grew to a nice size. There has been 

 for the last two years a faint suspicion of a blush on the check 

 of the Hale plum. 



