ON THE IDEAL PLUM 



hitherto developed can measure up to the maxi- 

 mum or ideal standard as to each and every one 

 of these qualities. The production of a variety 

 that will meet these requisitions remains for the 

 plant improver of the future perhaps of the not 

 distant future. 



Meantime it will, I think, be admitted by those 

 best competent to judge that there are some of 

 my hybrid plums, notably, for example, the Wick- 

 son, the Formosa, and the Santa Rosa plums, and 

 the Sugar, Standard and Conquest prunes, that, 

 in their respective fields, make a fair approxima- 

 tion to the ideal standard. There are plums in the 

 orchard that excel all these in some respects, but 

 have not as yet all the qualities in combination. 



Building an ideal plant of 

 any kind is like building a 

 house. Each must be planned 

 in accordance with a clearly 

 conceived idea. But there is this 

 great difference: in the case 

 of the plant you must wait for 

 Nature to supply you with the 

 material with which to build. 



