22 
MOUNT ARBOR NURSERIES, SHENANDOAH, IOWA 
Japan Plums 
Abundance — One of the best Japan plums. Tree 
is a very rapid grower, healthy and comes 
into bearing quite young and yields abundant- 
ly; medium size, rich, bright cherry-red with 
distinct bloom and highly perfumed; flesh 
light yellow, juicy and tender and excellent 
quality; tree vigorous and hardy. 
*Burbank — Medium to large, orange-yellow, dot- 
ted and marbled with red; flesh meaty, yel- 
low, sweet and good; valuable for canning 
and a good market plum; mid- June. Hardiest 
and most prolific of the Japan varieties. 
Ogon — Medium, roundish, lemon-j'ellow with a 
heavy white bloom; flesh very firm with a 
peculiar musky almond flavor, indifferent 
quality, but good for canning. Mid-season. 
Klondike — Medium to small, roundish-oval, 
bright yellow shaded with red and many small 
dots; flesh juicy, pleasant, sub-acid; quality 
good; early August. 
Milton— Large, fine, deep red, skin thin, and 
flesh firm; good quality; ripens about a week 
earlier than Wild Goose; a strong grower, and 
very productive; clingstone; extremely hardy. 
Miiner — Medium to large, roundish-oblong; dull 
purplish-red with many small yellow and 
gray dots; flesh amber colored, soft, juicy, 
rich, but some astringency when cooked, poor 
bearer when not intermingled with other va- 
rieties. 
Pottawattamie — Medium to small, roundish- 
oval, bright red with light colored dots and 
thin bloom; flesh yellow, sweet and juicy; 
quality good; not hardy in the North. 
Cherries — Black Tartarian (See page 23) 
Satsuma — Large, roundish-oval with a short 
blunt point; dark red, specked with greenish 
dots; flesh very firm, blood-red, rather coarse 
but good. A good canning plum. Season late 
and a long keeper. 
Wickson — Ijarge, heart-shaped, deep maroon- 
red; flesh very firm, yellow, sub-acid, rich 
and good; a good shipping plum; tree upright, 
but in some localities a shy bearer. 
Native Plums 
Cheney — Large, roundish, oblong, deep mottled 
red on greenish-yellow ground: blue bloom; 
flesh yellow, firm and of good quality. Mid- 
dle of August. 
•De Soto — Large, oval, orange overlaid with 
crimson, numerous dots and thin blue bloom; 
flesh firm, juicy and high-flavored; one of 
the best natives in quality. 
•Forest Garden — Large, nearly round, deep red 
when fully ripe with numerous yellow specks; 
fle-sh firm, sub-acid, good quality; season late. 
Hammer — Medium to large, crimson with yellow 
dots, blue bloom; a valuable sort as the tree 
Is hardy and an immense bearer. September. 
Quaker — Very large, roundish, oval, purplish-red 
with yellow dots and blue bloom; flesh yellow, 
firm and sweet; quality excellent. 
Rockford— Medium to small, oval, dark red with 
numerous small dots, thick lilac bloom; flesh 
meaty, firm, not very juicy, quality good. 
♦Surprise — Large, roundish-oval, dark red with 
many small yellow dots; flesh pale yellow, 
lirm and of good quality. 
Weaver — Large, oblong, flattened at ends, dark 
mottled red with purplish bloom; flesh firm; 
meaty and very good; a constant and regular 
bearer and very hardy. 
•Wild Goose — Medium to large; roundish-ob- 
long, skin light red and shining, making an 
attractive market plum; flesh yellow, pulpy 
and sweet; very popular, but a poor fertilizer, 
should be planted with other trees of abund- 
ant pollen. 
Wolf — Medium to large, yellow mottled with 
red; flesh yellow, firm and good quality; tree 
vigorous and a prolific bearer. 
•Wyant — Medium to large, oblong, purple-red 
on yellow ground; flesh firm and good quality; 
one of the most popular of the American sorts. 
