NOTES ON PLUM CULTURE. 
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BOTAN. JAPANESE GROUP. {Frunus trifiora.) 
Our trees were planted in 1897 have not yet had 
sufficient test as to hardiness. They have made a vigorous 
growth and are now well set with fruit buds. Leaves of 
medium size, glossy, light green, sharp-pointed at both ends; 
stalks short and stout. 
BURBANK. JAPANESE GROUP. {Frunus tri for a.) 
Trees planted in 1897 bore a few fruits this season. 
Habit of growth upright, very vigorous. Leaves of medium 
size, broadly lanceolate, short acuminate, stalk short and 
stout. Fruit large, peach-like in shape; color deep red, on 
yellow ground, which appears in small spots; flesh firm, 
deep yellow; suture evident; stone small, semi-cling. Ripe 
September 12. 
CHAMPION. {Frunus vainer icMiia.) 
Trees planted in 1894 have made a vigorous spreading 
growth, smooth, less thorny than most members of the 
group. Leaves large, light glossy green, strongly recurved, 
stalks red, short, somewhat pubescent. Not yet fruited. 
CHENEY. {F runus Americana.) 
Planted in 1894. Very vigorous in growth and upright 
in habit, producing no virgate drooping branches; quite 
thorny; leaves obovate, acuminate, three to five inches 
long, veins prominent, pubescent below, light green, leath- 
ery in texture, stalks stout, about an inch long; fruit large, 
somewhat oblique, pointed or rounded at apex; stem short, 
stout, set in a large cavity, suture evident; color dull red, 
mottled on a greenish-yellow ground; stone cling; skin 
thick, flesh firm, sweet, of good flavor. Ripe September 4. 
One of the most promising of the Americana varieties. 
P'ruit fig. I, plate V; tree, plate VIII. 
CHOPTANK. WILD GOOSE GROUP. {Frujius hortulana^) 
Trees planted in 1894 have made a vigorous growth 
each year, and have regularly killed back nearly to the 
ground each winter. Evidently too tender for this locality. 
