Nkw Creations in Fruits and Fi^owers. 



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Cross-bred Plum "Perfection." (Life Size.) 



Cross-bred Plum. 



** PerfectioD." W^cV'^^^ ^ 



Kelsey ^ Burbank. 



Among the many thousand Japan Plums which I have fruited, this one, 

 so far, stands preeminent in its rare combination of good qualities. 



The tree grows in vase form, sturdy and upright, yet as gracefully branch- 

 ing as could be desired, and is productive almost to a fault. The fruit, which 

 is well shown in the photo-engraving, is evenly distributed all over the tree, 

 and from the time it is half grown until a few days before ripening is of a 

 pearly white color, but all at once soft pink shadings creep over it, and in a 

 few days it has changed to a glowing carmine with a heavy white bloom ; the 

 stone is very small and the flesh is of fine texture, firm, sugary and delicious, 

 and will keep two weeks or more after ripening, or can be picked when hard 

 and white and will color and ripen almost as well as if left on the tree. 



Stock on hand : Original tree, six good-sized young trees and fifty 

 grafts. Price, for stock and control, $2,000. 



Hybrid Plums. — "Mr. Luther Burbank, of Santa Rosa, Cal., sends specimens of 

 Hybrid Plums, which are certainly remarkable in this — that they came in a small box by 

 mail during the torrid weather of the early part of August, wrapped simply in cotton 

 batting, and were as sound and fresh as if just taken from the tree. Certainly they are, in 

 the language of the markets, admirable carriers. 



"They are cross-bred Japan Plums. Though the first year of bearing, and therefore 

 smaller than they will be next year, according to usual experience, they are six inches in 

 circumference. One of them looks just like a very large Reine Claude de Bavay — the 

 finest of all the green gages. The other is a dark purple, and of a piquant, agreeable 

 flavor peculiarly its own. Another, the 'Perfection,' is superior to most of the Plums of 

 the old world stock, both in size and flavor." — Meehan's Monthly. 



"Specimen of 'Perfection' Plum duly received. I have had them modeled, and have 

 good descriptions now made of them. This is certainly a handsome Plum, and of good 

 quality, also." W. A. Taylor, Asst. Poniologist. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



" Your new cross-bred Plums, ' Perfection,' were received in as good order as if fresh 

 picked from the tree. I can only say it is excellent, and would seem to be the best of all 

 with Japanese blood. S. D. Wizard, Geneva, N. Y. 



