ON THE PLUM 



spring put forth blossoms abundantly that bore 

 their habitual good crop of fruit. 



Compare with this the opposite conditions of 

 climate in some of our more southern states, and 

 in some sections of Africa where the Burbank is 

 extensively grown and we have a story of re- 

 markable adaptability on the part of this plum. 

 THE BLOOD-PLUM SATSUMA 



The other notable plant among the twelve 

 seedlings was a representative of the race about 

 which the sailor had written and about which I 

 had read with such interest years before in the 

 San Francisco Library. 



This was, in short, a plum with red flesh, some- 

 thing hitherto unknown among the plums of Eu- 

 rope or America. 



Red flesh in a plum is a character so conspic- 

 uous that it is not likely to escape attention even 

 of the least observing. And my red plum had 

 other qualities that made it well worthy of intro- 

 duction. It first came into bearing in 1887, and 

 two years later it was introduced under the name 

 of Satsuma the name being suggested, as was 

 that of its companion the Burbank, by Professor 

 H. E. Van Deman. The name seemed highly ap- 

 propriate because it was the name of the province 

 from which the plum had come. 



Satsuma and its greatly improved hybrid de- 



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