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Plum. Long-cordate, or oblong pointed; flesh firm, deep amber yellow, 

 clinging to the small pit. Of first quality. An excellent keeper. A cross 

 of Burbank with Kelsey, Burbank furnishing the seed. Ripens middle of 

 September. One of the best Plums in cultivation. 



PLUMS FOR PROFIT. 



The author has for several years fruited many varieties of the Japan 

 Plums in a large way, having several hundred trees under cultivation. 

 They have been a satisfactory and profitable crop at all times. Our profits 

 from them have been as large as from any fruit grown,. However, we 

 find that the future of this family of fruit is an undecided and unsettled 

 problem among fruit growers. Many good fruit growers who have fruited 

 them successful- 

 ly and profitably, 

 have optimistic 

 views for their 

 future, and are 

 p 1 a n t i ng them 

 largely, thus 

 proving their 

 faith in them. 

 Then on the 

 other hand we 

 meet growers 

 who are extre- 

 m e 1 y conserva- 

 tive about plant- 

 ing them to any 

 extent, if at all, 

 seeming to think 

 that ere long the 

 market will be 

 glutted with 

 them when the 

 season is favor- 

 able for their 

 fruiting; that 

 when they rot 

 badly in sea- 

 sons of excessive 

 rains, the crop 

 is so light that 



they will be unprofitable. We have faith enough in the Japs to continue 

 planting and fruiting them consistently with the other tree fruits, but 

 toot exclusively of them. Perhaps we can better and more forcibly ex- 

 plain by stating that we would plant them in one-half the quanities of the 

 Peach, and this rule would hold good both for commercial orcharding 

 and for the home garden. 



EUROPEAN PLUMS. 



These should, like the Japan sorts, be planted twenty feet apart 

 and should be treated in the same way. Under similar conditions thev 

 are not as vigorous growers as the Japs and, of course, do not need such 

 radical treatment in pruning them. They are much more susceptible to 

 the somewhat troublesome black knot, and everlasting and persistent 



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