New Creations in Fruits and Flowers. 



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Cross-brkd Plum J.— 3972. (Life vSize.) 



Cross-bred Plum. 



J.— ;51)72. \C 



Kelsey Satsuma. 



A remarkably handsome, large, yellow Plum, marbled with green and 

 having a red cheek ; closely resembling a very large Reine Claude ; light 

 yellow, very sweet, and abundantly juicy flesh. 



The tree is an unusually strong growing variety, with light green bark 

 and broad shining leaves, and is as productive as any one could wish. The fruit 

 grows so thick as to hide the older branches, and yet it all comes to perfection. 

 Some of the branches show a slight tendency to be thorny. 



Stock : Original tree and several strong grafts. Price, $300. 



Ijuther Burbaiik's New Plains. 



" Notable results are already accruing from the wonderfully extensive and devoted efforts 

 which have been put forth for many years by Luther Burbank of Santa Rosa. He has 

 produced during the last twenty-five years something like twenty million hybrid and 

 cross-bred seedling plants, and the endless labor and outlay bestowed in hybridizing, 

 selecting, testing, etc., is now being more generally recognized, and some of the fruiis 

 and flowers originated by his labors are becoming household w^ords wherever fruits and 

 flowers are admired. We have from time to time alluded to this important work in the 

 Rural, and we are pleased now to mention three new Plums of which early borne samples 

 are sent us. , 



"The first is a seedling grown from seed of Kelsey Japan Plum crossed with pollen 

 from Satsuma. It is a wonderfully fine fruit in texture of skin and flesh, and in fact is free 

 from coarseness of any kind. It carries the rich dark color of the Satsuma, and in its 

 upper portions shows the symmetry of that variety. Its lower half discloses the influ- 

 ence of the Kelsey upon its outline, for it has inclination to draw to a point, though to a 

 much less degree than in the Kelsey. The flesh has the dark red of the Satsuma, 

 somewhat lightened with the yellow of the Kelsey. . Its flavor is characteristic and delight- 

 ful, and suggests Watermelon, Grape, Plum and Apricot as its presence invades the palate. 

 The pit is smooth, shapely and of medium size. The fruit seems to us to reflect in a 

 notable degree the good qualities of both its parents. 



