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How to Judge Novelties 
do not extend beyond the boundaries of San Joaquin. For San Joaquin County, the 
present year, 4,000,000 bushels, I think, will amply cover the production, and possibly 
there might be a million bushels outside of the limits of the County which are 
shipped by Stockton commission men or growers from points in the immediate 
vicinity. I have interviewed many of the shippers and find that their judgment as 
to the percentage of Burbanks in the output of this County ranges from 90 per 
cent, to nearly 99 per cent. From the best information obtained, however, I would 
say that 95 per cent, of the output, and especially of the shipments, arc Burbank 
potatoes, and consequently from the reclaimed regions in San Joaquin Count}', im- 
mediately adjacent, there is probably an annual output of 4,750,000 bushels of Bur- 
bank potatoes. Some Early Rose, Peerless and a few other varieties are grown 
early in the season, but they do not figure largely in the market except for a few- 
weeks in the early summer. J. M. EDDY. Scc'y. 
"Stockton Chamber of Commerce, Stockton, California." 
The "BURBANK" CHERRY brought in the eastern States at the 
wholesale public auction sales in 1908, fifteen dollars per ten pound box. and 
seven dollars and fifty cents per ten pound box later in carload lots, and in 
1909 sold again in Philadelphia at the fabulous price of thirty-one dollars 
per box of ten pounds. Just three dollars and ten cents per pound wholesale. 
The WICKSON PLUM, though first introduced as lately as 1894, is now 
grown in California, Australia, New Zealand, South America and Africa 
more extensively than any other plum introduced since that date, and is 
acknowledged to be the best shipping plum known. Nothing as large and 
of such fine quality had ever before been seen. By a vote of the nurserymen 
and growers of California last year (1909), it was placed at the head of the 
list as the most popular of all plums. 
The PINEAPPLE QUINCE, introduced in 1899, is coming into prom- 
inence. It is acknowledged by those who have grown it to be superior to 
all known quinces in its unequaled quality, a revolution and a revelation in 
that heretofore neglected fruit. The VAN DEM AN also is largely grown 
and recommended as a remarkably productive variety. 
The PHENOMENAL BERRY, introduced in 1893, is to-day the favorite 
berry on the Pacific Coast, and the person who could supply the demand for 
plants of the PHENOMENAL last season has not yet been found. 
The HIMALAYA BERRY, which originated on my grounds fifteen 
years ago, is "not like other berries," for it will and does bear more than 
four times more weight of fruit per ■ plant than any other berry. Six to 
eight tons per acre on young fields is a fair crop, but as the plants get older 
the)' become almost trees, sometimes producing one or two hundred feet 
or more of branches each season and berries in proportion. The HIMAL- 
AYA is a most delicious berry, unsurpassed in quality, and the best keeper 
and shipper. At the Washington U. S. Experiment Station a test was made 
"I look lo great practical results from Burbank's work among plants." — Thomas 
A. Edison. 
