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Because of its attractive fruit this variety might well be grown more than 

 it is for the markets. 



Chabot was imported from Japan by a Mr. Chabot of Berkeley, Cali- 

 fornia, and was introduced to the trade by Luther Burbank in 1886. As 

 with Abundance, the nomenclature of Chabot is badly confused. Several 

 names that have been found to be synonymous with the former have also 

 been applied to the latter. J. L. Normand, Marksville, Louisiana, imported 

 trees from Japan, among which was a tree that was different from any 

 growing on his grounds. He named this variety after Bailey and in- 

 troduced it in 1891. Later this was found to be identical with Chabot. 

 Furugiya, another introduction by Normand, is undoubtedly Chabot. H. 

 N. Starnes of the Georgia Experiment Station, who has tested many of 

 the Japanese plums, published in Bulletin 68 of his station, the additional 

 synonyms: Chase, O-hattankio, Hytankayo, Douglas, Hon-smomo and 

 Babcock. Orient, introduced by Stark Brothers, Louisiana, Missouri, in 

 1893, is Chabot as tested at the New York and Ohio experiment stations. 

 Paragon, introduced by the Rogers Nursery Company, Moorestown, New 

 Jersey, has also proved to be identical. In 1897 the American Pomological 

 Society added this variety to its fruit catalog list. 



Tree large, vigorous, vasiform or upright-spreading, open-topped, slow-growing, 

 hardy, productive, susceptible to attacks of shot-hole fungus; branches roughish, the 

 fruit-spurs numerous, dark ash-gray, with raised lenticels variable in size; branchlets 

 slender, with short internodes, greenish-red changing to dark chestnut-red, glossy, glabrous, 

 with numerous, conspicuous, rather large, raised lenticels; leaf -buds small, short, obtuse, 

 somewhat appressed. 



Leaves folded upward, obovate or oblanceolate, peach-like, one and one-quarter 

 inches wide, three inches long, thin; upper surface light green, smooth, with a shallow, 

 grooved midrib; lower surface pale green, glabrous except at the base of the veins; 

 apex acutely pointed, base cuneate, margin finely serrate, with small, amber or dark 

 red glands; petiole one-half inch long, slender, slightly pubescent along the upper 

 surface, heavily tinged with red, glandless or with from one to six small, globose or ren- 

 iform, greenish-brown glands usually on the stalk. 



Blooming season intermediate and long; flowers appearing with the leaves, white; 

 borne in clusters on lateral spurs in pairs or in threes; pedicels three-eighths inch long, 

 pubescent, greenish; calyx- tube green, obconic, pubescent at the base; calyx-lobes 

 obtuse, glandular, somewhat serrate, pubescent at the base, erect; petals broadly oval, 

 entire, with narrow, long claws; anthers shrivelled; filaments nearly sessile or one- 

 eighth inch long; pistil glabrous, longer than the stamens; stigma small. 



Fruit mid-season, ripening period long; one and five-eighths inches in diameter, 

 cordate or roundish, halves equal; cavity deep, flaring, with concentric, russet rings; 



