How to Judge Novelties 
Some interesting facts which have not perhaps attracted the attention 
of fruit growers : Within the past twenty years one hundred and twenty 
new plums have been introduced by various growers, dealers, and nursery- 
men, in the United States. Among these one hundred and twenty are twenty- 
four of my own production, as follows : 
Abundance 
Burbank 
Gold 
Delaware 
Hale 
Doris 
Satsuma 
First 
Apple 
Combination 
October 
Wickson 
America 
Chalco 
Climax 
Splendor 
Giant 
Sugar 
Sultan 
Bartlett 
Shiro 
Formosa 
Santa Rosa 
Gaviota 
The last three quite lately. 
All of these twenty-four have proved successful with growers, dealers 
and consumers, and arc quite generally catalogued at the present time. Take 
the catalogue of any well-known up-to-date nursery establishment, for in- 
stance, Brown Bros. & Co.. Rochester, N. Y. ; the Storrs & Harrison Co., 
Painesville, Ohio; George C. Roeding, Fresno, Calif., or almost any other 
prominent nurseryman in the United States, or D. Hay & Son of New Zea- 
land ; John M. Rutland, of Australia; Senor Salvador Isquierdo, of South 
America; H. F. V. Pickstone & Bros., of Africa, or any well-known foreign 
firm anywhere, and note the varieties listed as standards. Have the twenty- 
four mentioned been generally so listed? What has become of the other 
ninety-six new varieties which have been introduced by all other parties? 
The facts are these : 
Nearly ninety-five per cent, of the new plums introduced since 1890, 
now catalogued as standards, originated on my own farms, although nearly 
four times as many new varieties have been introduced by other dealers. 
Most of the introductions of others are not now generally even listed. Then 
if you should again happen to ask 
The Poet John Burroughs Likes Patagonia Strawberries. — See 
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