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Burbank. (See preceding page ) 
JAPAN PLUMS, continued 
Red June. New. Fruit medium to large, 
•late and very prominently elongaterl 
le ape.x ; suture deep, generally lop- 
■Mued ; deep vermilion-red all over, with 
a handsome hloom ; very showy ; flesh 
light lemon-yellow or whitish, firm :md 
moderately juicy, not stringy, slightly sub- 
acid to sweetish ; of good, pleasant qu.ility ; 
cling to half cling ; pit small. Tree vigor- 
ous and productive. 
Satsuma Blood. A purple-lleshed rium 
of very vigorous growth, with rank, dark 
green folitige ; enormously productive of 
fruit ; large ; skin dark purplish red, mot- 
tled with bluish bloom ; shape gloliuhir, 
or with a sharp |)oint ; (lesh firm, juicy, 
dark red or blood -color, well flavored, 
firm, (|uality very good ; pit very little 
larger than a cherry-stone ; fruits at two 
or three years of age. Considered by 
some to be the most valuable of Japan 
Plums. With us the trees have bloomed 
too early, and the past season is the only 
one in which they have fruited, while 
Polan and Ogon have fruited three out of 
four years. 
Simons’ ( Primus Simouii) . This varietv 
is from China. Perfectly hardy and very 
productive, commencing to bear when two 
or three years from the bud. Fruit deep 
rich red color, somewhat flattened, and 
has a little of the a])pearance of a dark 
red tomato, and « ith a peculiar aromatic 
flavor. We do not recommend this variety 
for market. The trees are very distinct. 
growing upright like a Lombardy poplar. 
•Middle of Augu.st. 
Willard. Another new Japan Plum, 
similar in color and appearance to the 
■Abundance, but ripens a month earlier; 
earlier than Wild Goo.se and the Kuropean 
varieties. Mr Willard says: “The only 
thing to recommend it is its earliness. “ 
Wickson. .\ew cn ss-breed Plum by 
Luther Bui bank, which he sent out in the 
spring of nSg.s. Mr. Burbank says : 
“Among the many Japan Plums which I 
have fruited this one so far stands pre- 
eminent in its rare combination of good 
(|ualities. The tree grows in va.se form, 
sturdy and upright, yet as gracefully 
branching as coukl be desired, and is pro- 
ductive to a fault. The fruit is evenly 
distributed all over the tree, and from the 
time it is half grown until a few days be- 
fore ripening is of a pearly white color, 
but all at once soft pink shadings creep 
over it, and in a few days it has changed 
to a glowing carmine, with a heavy white 
bloom ; the stone is small and the flesh 
is of fine texture, firm, sugary and deli- 
cious, and will keep two weeks or more 
after ripening, or can be picked when 
hard and white, and will color and rijien 
almost as well as if left on the tree. 
Yellow Japan. Fruit large, nearly round ; 
skin yellow, washed with red on sunny 
side ; flesh yellow, juicy and of good 
quality ; tree vigorous, re.sembling Kelsey 
in growth, but with larger leaves. It is 
named ^■ellow Japan, although a red 
Plum. 
Wickson. 
'■ I have been selling your nursery stock for five or six years and can trutlifully say that your trees 
arc first-class, I sell to the same people every season, if they need trees. People say tliat your trees are 
the best that Iiave ever been sold. I boutrbt 175 pear trees in the fall of 1903 ; they are all fine Several 
nurserymen have written me and tried to secure my services. 1 have, however, tlecided to Uet well 
eiiouirh alone' and declined their offers.” — H. I.lv'sEY, I'rankford. West Viririnia,yK/y 16, 1904. 
