The "Tlamcot" 
OUIyD any one imagine a better combination than the Japanese plums and 
the common Apricots? The combination has been made and our new 
Plumcots 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 freestone character of some of the varieties, the one 
shown above has yellow flesh, some of them have deepest crimson, pink, or white 
Mesh, 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 wonder of my orchard this summer; the foot of 
grafting wood purchased in 1898 was budded into small Chickasaw stocks, they made 
good heads next season, 1899, and bore 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 who have been here to see them the finest plums they ever 
saw, they ripen here June 25th 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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