HIS cut represents a new, second generation combination cross of Hawkeye, 
Hammer, Milton, Wyant, Wayland and Satsuma. The branches of this variety 
droop like the Russian Weeping mulberry. The wood is firm, wiry, dark blue- 
almost black with numerous white dots. The fruit which hangs in amazing profusion 
on the branches, wreathing them in plums to the ground, is unusually handsome and of 
the finest quality. The flesh is crimson, pit exceedingly small, skin deep purplish crim- 
son, nearly half covered with large white dots with a white bloom. This promises to be 
one of the best of the hardy hybrid plums. Price for stock and complete control, $800. 
No wood for sale this season. 
Your Japan hybrid plums seem, much to my surprise, to be fully as hardy here— 
100 miles north of Boston — as the Domesticas, and I shall plant an orchard of 1000 of 
them in the spring."— F. L. Temple, Westminster, Vt. 
"On further examination of the American — Satsuma cross I am greatly impressed 
with it. It is something entirely new — a real novelty. The Americana characters are 
very striking, in leaf, form of fruit, markings, flavor, stone, etc. But the flesh and 
texture of the fruit are evidently Satsuma. The stem is anomalous. The whole thing 
is worthy further study; and I believe the plum cranks would be well pleased to have 
you introduce this variety next year, if only for the purpose of further breeding experi- 
ments. Nevertheless the fine color, and the evidently superior shipping quality of the 
fruit would make it a candidate for favor as an early shipping fruit. It would probably 
be superior for canning also. I would rather have scions of this variety for test in Ver- 
mont than anything you have yet produced, excepting Wickson and Climax. Don't pass 
this variety by too hastily. It may not be the sort of a plum that you consider the ideal 
for California, but it has too much promise for other parts of the country, so far as 
any one may judge from one or two specimens."- — F. A. Waugh, Burlington, Vt." 
"The mystery of mysteries is how a new flower or fruit is created. Nothing seems 
simpler while Luther Burbank tells you in his clear, choice language and with his singu- 
larly boyish smile, of the agencies and methods he employs to accomplish his miracles. 
But fancy any one copying his directions and then attempting to produce therefrom an 
apple or a plum, a rose or a lily, such as never before came to perfection under the sun." 
— H. R. P. T. for S. F. "Call." 
On the beautiful Statue of Victory in the Missouri Botanical Gardens is the fol- 
lowing inscription: "The victory of science over ignorance. Ignorance is the curse of 
God. Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven." 
