FRUIT DEPARTMENT— PLUMS AND PRUNES 
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CHERRIES, Continued. 
hardy and prolific. Valuable for late mar- 
ket and for family use. 
*Wragg. Much like English Morello. 
More productive and excels in size, yield 
and quality. Hardy and produces crops at 
the northernmost limits of cherry growing. 
Yellow Spanish. Large, pale yellow, with 
red cheeks; firm, juicy and excellent. Vig- 
orous and productive. Last of June. 
( Prunus .) 
T HE PLUM tree, like the pear and other finer fruits, attains its great- 
est perfection in our heavy soil, being entirely free from disease. 
Plums are hardy and grow vigorously in nearly all sections, succeeding 
best on heavy soils in which there is a mixture of clay. 
Most of the cultivated varieties of plums are Europeans, or descend- 
ants of European varieties. But in recent years certain extraordinarily 
good varieties of native plums have been widely disseminated, and re- 
cently we have received some extremely valuable varieties from Japan. 
The finer kinds of plums are beautiful dessert fruits, of rich and lusci- 
ous flavor. For cooking and canning they are unsurpassed. For best flavor 
they should be allowed to remain on the tree until fully ripe; but for ship- 
ping to market they must be gathered a few days earlier, when they may 
be shipped long distances, arriving in good condition. Overbearing should 
not be allowed. 
Some varieties, especially of the native plums, are extremely hardy 
and will stand the climate of the extreme northwest. 
JAPANESE, or ORIENTAL PLUMS. 
This race is as distinct from our native varieties as the Yellow New- 
town is from the Baldwin apple. Many of these varieties succeed well in 
sections where the European varieties cannot be depended upon. They 
unite size, beauty and productiveness, and come into bearing at the age of 
two to four years. Flesh firm and meaty, will keep for a long time in ex- 
cellent condition. Their early blooming habit renders them unsafe in 
some sections and they never will take the place of our older varieties, 
but possess many valuable characteristics. 
We group plums under the following divisions: A, American type, 
very hardy (Chickasaw types). D, Domestica, European types. J, Japan- 
ese type. J* (starred) Japanese Hybrids, and crosses of the Japan plums. 
Abundance. J. Medium size; rich, bright 
cherry-red, with a distinct bloom; flesh 
light yellow, juicy and tender, quality ex- 
cellent. Tree rapid grower, vigorous, 
hardy, heavy grower. 
Bartlett, j* Productive. An ornamental 
tree, with glossy green leaves. Fruit oval, 
yellow, turning to deep crimson when fully 
ripe; flesh light salmon-colored, firm and 
juicy. Ripens before Burbank. 
RrarLIiaw D - Fruit lar E e > dark violet ‘ 
Draasnaw. re( j. fl es h y e n 0 wish green. 
juicy and pleasant. Tree vigorous, erect 
and productive. Middle of August. 
