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Luther Burbank, Santa Rosa, Cal. 



Hybrid Plum. 



A.-248. ■■^^vwcw.a." CUaJxO^) 



Bo/an X Robinson. 



One of the earliest Plums, ripening here early in Jul}-. The fruit, which 

 in a hedgerow of seedlings averages three and three-fourths by four and a half 

 inches in circumference, is oval, heart-shaped, dark crimson, and nearly 

 covered with light yellow dots. Flesh, yellow, juicy with a combination of 

 the flavors of both species. 



In foliage, growth and general appearance of the tree, and in color and 

 dotting of the fruit the Robinson is very prominent, but the fruit more 

 resembles the Botan in form, size flavor and time of ripening, being some four 

 weeks earlier than Robinson. 



Stock : Original tree and some strong bearing grafts. Price, $400. 



" All of the Plums of which \'OU have sent us samples are certainly remarkabl) fine. 

 I am well acquainted with your history and your life-work, as are many others, and I 

 realize the fact farther that to very few parties who have broujj;ht out, as you have, so many 

 new and valuable varieties is given just compensation for their work. I would here add 

 the Plums sent out by you under the name of Burbank as well as the true vSweet Botan are 

 a remarkable success on my grounds." S. D. Wili^iard, Geneva, New York. 



" Your Plums reached us in first-class condition. They are splendid specimens of an 

 improved race. You deserve great credit for the successful energy displayed in these use- 

 ful lines." Thomas MEb.HAX& Sons, Germantown, Penn. 



" I think I never ate a better Plum in quality than the round yellow one that you say 

 is a seedling of the Peach Plum." H. R. Van Dp;man, Pomologist. 



Hybrid apd Oosj-bred Berries. 



VERYBODY appreciates delicious berries, but probably not one person 

 ^7^, in each million has the faintest idea of the labor and expense of cross- 

 ing, raising and testing a million -new kiiids of denies as the writer has 

 done, and seleciing with untiring diligence those which are to become stand- 

 ards of excellence as the 3^ears roll by. 



Nothing like the work which I am doing has anywhere ever been 

 attempted even by Government aid ; and no cue will question the claim that I 

 have made more and greater improvements in Blackberries and Raspberries 

 during the last fourteen years than have otherwise been made during all the 

 past eighteen centuries. 



