ON NEW PLUMS AND PRUNES 



ties might become standards in the colder sections 

 of the United States and other countries. 



Six important American species have been 

 used in these experiments: They are known as 

 the American plum (Prunus Americana), the 

 Wild-Goose plum (P. hortulans), the Chickasaw 

 plum (P. angustifolia), the Western Sand Cherry 

 (P. Bessevi), the Beach plum (P. maritima), and 

 the California wild plum (P. subcordata) . 



These were the native wild plums of the mid- 

 dle western states and the Rocky Mountains south 

 to the Gulf of Mexico. Most of them are unusu- 

 ally hardy. Cold does them no harm even in the 

 northermost part of the central division of the 

 United States. 



As to quality of fruit, these wild plums differ, 

 but all have attractive flavors, and these flavors 

 have been blended variously in no fewer than 

 eleven new varieties that I have thought worthy 

 of introduction. 



Anyone who has experienced the delightful 

 flavor of my plums, Gold, Shiro, Geewhiz, Duarte, 

 or America, will be interested to know that these 

 new varieties (along with seven others) are Amer- 

 ican plums, reconstructed through combination 

 with other species, but owe their flavor largely to 

 their wild American ancestors. 



To develop the earliest plum in existence from 



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