SEVEN] OUT IN THE ORCHARD 
Sultan, Apple, Matthews, Climax, America, Hale, 
and Bartlett. I am not sure that every one of these 
is due to Mr. Burbank; but it will not give him un- 
' due honor if we attribute to his skill a few origin- 
ated elsewhere. His farm of thousands of acres, at 
Santa Rosa, California, is the greatest experiment 
station in the world. There, as in the Garden of 
Eden, he creates new fruits, and new flowers, and 
new vegetables, about as fast as the rest of us can 
name them. 
Of our native sorts of plums a few enthusiasts 
already have collections of at least two hundred 
and fifty or more varieties. The collections are so 
very large that it is difficult for any one at present 
to speak with authority as to what half-dozen are 
best for planting. I think that among the best for 
a quiet garden are Hawkeye, Weaver, and Wyant. 
Yet when you are altogether through with your 
study of plums, there is one sort still to be named 
that in almost all sections of the United States de- 
serves to head the plum list for common people; 
I mean the Bleecker, or Lombard. It is a tree that 
grows so easily, and bears so profusely, while the 
fruit is of such splendid canning quality, that it is 
the plum for the four corners of the United States. 
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