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THE BUTLEK & JEWELL CO. 
PLUMS, continued. 
Satsuma (Blood Plum, Yonemomo). Fruit large when prop- 
erly thinned, round-oblong with blunt point and deep suture ; 
color dull brown-red, 
mottled with greenish 
dots ; flesh hard and 
blood-red. Satsuma 
seldom becomes edible 
with us, but for can- 
ning or preserving it 
has no equal. We have 
yet to learn of a single 
party who has once 
had the fruit who did 
not demand it for 
succeeding seasons. 
Always brings highest 
price in market. 
Wickson. Fruit 
very large, long, heart- 
shaped, with deep su- 
ture ; color deep ma- 
roon-red, sometimes 
lighter; pit small; 
flesh firm and meaty, 
IVichson -the largest of the hardy varieties. y e ]| ow r i c |, anc ] ;iro , 
made, with a slight 
lemon flavor; cling; tree a narrow, upright grower, like Simonii. 
Professor Bailey and Professor Waugh believe Simonii to be one of 
its parents, although Mr. Burbank introduced it as a Burbank-Kel- 
sey cross. From the character of the foliage, bloom and fruit, the 
habit of growth and method of fruit-bearing, we should say it is a 
cross of Kelsey and Simonii. So far it has been a shy bearer with 
us, but we look for 
greater productiveness 
as the trees increase in 
age. Perfectly hardy 
here. September. 
NEW JAPANESE 
VARIETIES. 
These, with excep- 
tion of Excelsior, all be- 
long to Mr. Burbank’s 
“ latest and best” con- 
tributions, and the de- 
scriptions are not our 
own, none of the varie- 
ties having fruited ex- 
cept in California. 
America. “This 
giant Plum is a Robin- 
son-Botan cross. In 
New Plum , "America." 
