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pointed and evenly and finely serrate; fruit with firm 

 flesh and usually small, clinging stone. Represented 

 by several rather diverse varieties, among which the 

 following types are readily distinguishable: 



1. BOTAN TYPE. Fruit roundish but always more 

 or less pointed; flesh yellow; skin mostly heavily 

 sprinkled or splashed with red, never solid red or yel- 

 low. Abundance, Burbank, Chabot. 



2. RED JUNE TYPE. Fruit usually small to medium, 

 frequently oblong, compressed; color solid red or yel- 

 low; flesh firm, meaty, dry; flavor flat; quality poor. 

 Red June, Kerr, Willard, Ogon. 



3. SATSUMA TYPE. Fruit large, round, pointed, 

 dark red; flesh firm, red. Satsuma. 



4. KELSEY TYPE. Tree tender; fruit large, oval, 

 flattened; yellow skin and flesh. Kelsey. This type is 

 closely related to the Red June type, and perhaps the 

 two ought to be grouped together. 



5. HALE TYPE. Tree very vigorous, upright grower, 

 coming tardily into bearing; fruit medium to large, 

 round or round-oblate, with a comparatively long 

 stem, transparent yellowish skin (very different from 

 the opaque tomato yellow of Ogon), considerably 

 washed and splashed with red or purplish red; flesh 

 rather soft and juicy. Hale, October Purple. 



6. BERGER TYPE. Fruit small, somewhat cherry- 

 like, usually round-oblate, sometimes slightly com- 

 pressed, usually with a distinct suture; color yellow 

 or red; flesh hard and dry; quality generally poor; 

 ripening very early. Berger, Earliest of All, Engre. 



V. GONZALES GROUP (Prunus triflora robusta}. A 

 comparatively homogeneous group, made up of hy- 



