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The Butler & Jewell Co. 
NEW JAPANESE AND HYBRID VARIETIES 
These, except Excelsior, Gonzales and Red May, were produced 
by Luther Burbank, of California. We merely repeat the descrip- 
tions as they come to us. 
Only two of the varieties 
have fruited in Connecti- 
cut, and all need further 
trial before we give them 
our unqualified endorse- 
ment. 
America. “This giant 
Plum is a Robinson-Botan 
cross. In growth and gen- 
eral appearance the tree 
is like the American 
Chickasaw Plums. The 
fruit is larger than the 
average Japans and four 
to sixteen times as large 
as Robinson or Marianna. 
New Plum. “America.” Fruit a beautiful, glOSSy 
coral-red ; flesh yellow 
and very delicious. Ripens two weeks before Burbank.” 
□ S. D. Willard says of America : “ One of the finest Plums I ever 
tasted ; while its color is so attractive as to make it nearly irre- 
sistible.” The tree has made a good growth here and seems 
hardy. 50 cts. 
Apple. “Tree a very fine, strong grower, with peculiar light 
brown bark. The fruit, which is about inches in diameter, is 
striped and mottled until nearly ripe, when it turns to a deep 
reddish purple. The superlatively rich, high-flavored, sweet or 
subacid flesh is rather firm, pale red, with streaks of pink ; nearly 
freestone. Ripens soon 
after Burbank, and some- 
times keeps a month or 
more.” Its growth here 
is similar to Burbank’s. 
50 cts. 
We have good reports 
on both America and 
Apple from the South this 
season. Should have had 
fruit here but for the late 
freeze. 
"Bartlett. A hybrid ot 
Primus Simoni and ‘ Del- 
aware,’ itself one of Bur- 
bank’s older crossbred 
PI ums. ( Delaware is said 
to be a cross between 
those fine Plums, Sat- 
suma and Kelsey). New Plum. "Apple.” 
