The ''<Plumcors 



( )LXD any one imagine a l)etter coml3ination than the Japanese plums and 

 the common Apricots? The combination has been made and our new 

 Plinncots are as distinct as if a new fruit had been handed down from 

 another planet. 



The general form of most of them is shown above, an opened one below 

 showing the seed and the +reestone character of some of the varieties, the one 

 shown above has yellow flesh, some of them have deepest crimson, pink, or white 

 flesh, and are both free and clingstones. All have the general form of an apricot 

 and the same general outside appearance, but often more highly colored than 

 either a plum or an apricot with a skin unique-soft, slightly silky downy with a 

 shadowy bloom. Seed more often resembling a plum pit, but often vice versa. 

 The rich flavors of these fruits are a revelation of new fruit possibilities and are 

 not duplicated by any fruit growing on this planet. 



The tree is not quite perfected in some respects, therefore none of them will 

 be introduced until these improvements can be made. 



Not for sale this season. 



"Your "America" plum is the wcnder cf my ci chard this summer; the foot of 

 grafting wood purchased in 1898 was budded into small Chickasaw stocks, they made 

 good heads next season, 1899, and hore large, extra fine fruit, and again this season 

 bore enormously, two and a half to six bushels per tree and were considered by the hun- 

 dreds of good judges of fruit v/ho have been here to see them the finest plums they ever 

 saw, they ripen here June 2.5th to July 20th. I am deeply interested in plums and* while 

 all others of the Japanese type rotted very badly and were full of worms, yet among 

 these huge plums there were no defective ones. "America" thrives on hot, dry or heavy 

 clay soil and on high or low lands. It is the plum to set out for profit." — R. Bates, 

 Jackson, S .C. 



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