DESCRIPTIVE PRICED CATALOGUE. - 17 
JAPAN PLUMS. 
PRICES, except otherwise noted. Each. 
Beautiful i year trees $ .35 
XXX bearing size 75 
Doz. 
$3.00 
100. 
$22.50 
Wlckson, This is one of the largest of the Japanese sorts and we believe 
is destined to have a great future. It ripens just after Burbank. From the 
time it is half grown until a few days before ripening it is of a pearly white 
color but all at once soft pink shadings creep over it and in a few days it is 
changed to a glowing carmine with a heavy white bloom. Also see what Mr. 
Burbank the originator, says of it in connection with his description of Climax. 
Red June. The earliest of the Japans, ripening on or before August ist. 
Medium to larger size, deep vermilion red, with handsome bloom. (Only to be 
had in one year old trees.) 
October Purple. '• The October Purple is a splendid grower, ripens up 
its wood early to the tip, bears every season ; fruits all over the old wood on 
spurs, in'-tead of away out on the branches like many other kinds. Fruit very 
large and uniform in size. It is a superb variety." 
The fruit is round in form, color a reddish purple, a little darker than the 
Bradshaw ; flesh yellow, stone small. 50c. each. 
Hale. Prof. L. H. Bailey, thehighest American authority on Japan Plums, 
in Cornell Bulletin 106, January. i8q6, " Revised Opinions of Japan Plums," 
says of the Hale Plum: "A very handsome, large, round-cordate Plum; usually 
lop-sided; orange, thinh' overlaid with mottled red, so as to have a yellowish- 
red appearance, or, in well-colored specimens, deep cherry-red with yellow 
specks; flesh yellow, soft and juicy {yet a good keeper), not stringy, with a very 
delicious, slightly acid peachy flavor; skin somewhat sour; cling; very late. I 
know the fruit only from specimens sent at two or three different times by 
Luther Burbank. To ray taste, these specimens have been the best in quality 
of all the Japanese Plums." 
Abundance. Medium in size (or large when thinned), varying from 
nearly spherical to distinctly sharp-pointed, the point often oblique; ground 
color rich yellow, overlaid on the sunny side with dots and splashes of red, or 
in some specimens nearly uniformly blush red on the exposed side ; flesh deep 
yellow, juicy and sweet, of good quality when well ripened; cling. A strong 
growing, upright tree, with rather narrow leaves, and a decided tendency to 
overbear. This is the best known of all Japanese Plums in the north, and its 
popularity is deserved. Has thus far been more extensively planted than any 
other. Sea.son August 5 to 15. 
Burbank. Thefruitis usually from 33^ t04j'2 inches in circumference, vary- 
ing less in size than the other Japanese Plums ; it is nearly globular ; clear 
cherry red, sometimes showing yellow dots, or even marbled, with a thin lilac 
bloom ; flesh deep yellow, firm and meaty, rich and sugary, with a peculiar and 
very agreeable flavor; cling. Tree usually vigorous, often low-spreading, ex- 
cept in its sprawling habit of growth, with strong shoots, and large, rather 
broad leaves, resembles Abundance both in fruit and tree ; fruit averages 
larger and of better quality, and is rather handsomer. Season August 25 to 
September 10. 
Two of Mr. Burbank's later introductions, 
CLIMAX and SULTAN. 
ti •» A.' Tf^e KING CLIMAX. Which is the best selection from 
shaped, as large as Wickson, and more highly colored, so fragrant that a whole 
house is perfumed with a single fruit; delicious as could be desired or imagined, 
and, above all, it ripens here (in California) July 12th, before any other good 
plum, and nearly a mcmth before Wickson. 
a great number of hybrids of Simoni X Botan. Fruit is heart 
