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PACIFIC 



Prunus domestica 



I. U. S. D. A. Rpt. 292. 1893. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 150. 1895. 3. Oregon Sta. Bui. 45: 

 31. 1897. 4. Oregon Hort. Soc. Rpt. 474. i8g8. 5. Am. Pom, Soc. Cat. 40. 1899. 6. Waugh 

 Plum Cult. 117. 1901. 7. Oregon Agriculturist i7:No. 24, 370. 1908. 



Pacific 3. Pacific Prune 2, 3. Willamette 4, s, 7- Willamette Prune 3. 



No part of America is so well adapted to plum cultiire as the Pacific 

 Coast and especially the inter-mountain valleys in Oregon. From the 

 last-named State, though fruit-growing is a very recent development, a 

 number of meritorious plums have been added to pomology. One of the 

 best of these, as they grow in New York, is the Pacific, the fruits of which 

 are well shown in the color-plate. Few purple plums are more beautiful 

 than this in color and shape, few equal it in size and very few of its color 

 excel it in quality. The trees are unusually robust, perfectly hardy and 

 productive. In Oregon the Pacific has not proved a good prune-making 

 plum but is reported as standing eastern shipment very well, which, if 

 true, indicates that this plum would succeed as a market fruit in New 

 York. Pacific is well worth trjdng in New York as a commercial variety. 



This plum is hopelessly confused with the Willamette. The follow- 

 ing is an abridged account of the two fruits as written us by H. M. William- 

 son, Secretary of the Oregon State Board of Horticulture, and one of the 

 leading authorities on fruit-growing on the Pacific Coast. 



"About 1875 Jesse Bullock of Oswego, Oregon, sent to Germany for 

 pits of the Italian or Fellenberg prune, and planted the pits received in 

 a nurseiy row. When the trees from these began to bear, Mr. C. E. Hoskins 

 went to Mr. Bullock's place, examined the fruit and selected trees which 

 seemed promising, giving to each tree a number. From at least six of these 

 trees he took scions, propagated them, and named them Bullock No. i, 

 Bullock, No. 2, etc. He finally decided that only two of these, Bullock 

 No. I and Bullock No. 6, were of sufiEicient value to justify their further 

 propagation. Bullock No. i was named Champion and Bullock No. 6, 

 Willamette. Mr. Hoskins told me these names were given by the State 

 Horticultural Society, but I find no record of this action. He propagated 

 and sold a good many trees of both varieties, but more of the Willamette 

 than of the Champion. 



" Mr. Hoskins was strongly of the opinion that the Pacific is identical 

 with the Willamette. I am as strongly of the opinion that they are distinct 

 varieties. I base my opinion, first, upon the history of the origin of the 

 Pacific given me by Henry Freeboro, Portland, Oregon, who introduced 



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