10 
TWENTIETH CENTURY FRUITS 
A New Hardy Plum-"Epoch" 
"Epoch" should be one of the hardiest of all known plums, as it is a 
cross of the Western Sand Cherry (Prunus Besseyi) and America plum, 
both being about as near "Arctic" plums as can be mentioned. 
The tree is a compact grower, dwarf, with dark brown wood, which 
always, without fail, produces ropes of fruit, each fruit one and a half 
inches in diameter, beautiful crimson, with shades and dots of yellow. 
Flesh pure deep yellow, firm with a rich cranberry flavor, but sweeter, 
and when ripe very good. Ripens August 15th. The youngest, as well as 
the oldest, trees literally cover themselves with fruit, which keeps 
remarkably. Probably the most productive and best of all the "Iron 
Clad," extremely hardy dwarf plums. 
Trees, one year, 60c; three, $1.50; ten, $3. 
A New Plumcot-The "Apex" 
The Plumcots are absolutely new fruits, first produced on my farms 
some twenty years ago. A great amount of care and expense have been 
expended on them since and now I have the pleasure of offering one 
of these which will be widely grown in all countries where apricots 
or plums can be grown. This wonderful new fruit ripens with the very 
earliest of all the early plums, long before any other good plum or 
apricot (here June 15th), which would bring its season about three 
weeks earlier inland. The tree is a stout, compact, upright grower and 
has never failed to carry a full crop, even where apricots of all kinds 
can not be grown and in seasons when many plums were failures. The 
"APEX" PLUMCOT 
