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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 18 
Seeds of the Buckeye State tomato 
were sent to several farmers near the 
Rural Grounds by the Department of 
Agriculture. They are much pleased 
with it. The tomatoes are as even as 
any we have seen, the size being con¬ 
sidered, and we are told that they bring 
higher prices than any other kinds they 
are marketing. 
The last of the Hale Japan plums 
ripened in the Rural Grounds August 20. 
The color was yellowish-green—more 
green than yellow—without a trace of 
the purple which colored the specimens 
sent to us by the originator, Luther 
Burbank. This failing to color may 
have been that the tree was somewhat 
overshadowed by an old apple tree. The 
overshadowing branches have been re¬ 
moved, so that it will have more sun 
next year. The plums were nearly 
round, without suture, averaging 5% 
inches in circumference, the stems be¬ 
ing three-fourths inch long. 
Prof. Bailey describes it as of an 
orange color overlaid with mottled red, 
so that well colored specimens are of a 
deep cherry-red with yellow specks. 
The flesh is yellow, soft and juicy “with 
a delicious, slightly acid peachy flavor. 
The skin is somewhat sour. Cling. Very 
late.”. 
The handsomest plums we have ever 
seen were sent to us by Butler & Jewell, 
nurserymen of Cromwell, Conn.—Bur¬ 
banks. They were all of about the 
same size, and except as to size, are well 
described under Ruralisms of August 21. 
They measured 6% inches either way in 
circumference, and were, therefore, 
nearly round. In quality, they seemed 
a shade better than Abundance, while 
resembling it in color of flesh, juiciness 
and meatiness. Under date of August 
4, Butler & Jewell wrote us : “ We have 
now finished marketing the Abundance 
and, for four days, have been working 
off our Burbanks, and this week will, 
probably, finish them. Later, we shall 
have Chabot and Satsuma. We have 
had specimens of the Burbank measur¬ 
ing eight inches in circumference.”. 
grown in our town; in fact, twice the size and 
weight of Burbank in our grounds. A report 
from the exhibit at the fair will corroborate our 
statement. The Abundance is a fine upright 
grower, while the Burbank is very sprawling in 
habit. Of about 50 odd kinds of plums we have 
in our orchard, the Abundance is decidedly the 
best all-around plum. Neither it nor Burbank 
rotted or fell from curculio, while all the other 
sorts rotted very badly and were much injured 
by this little Turk. 
The one thing that most drew us tow¬ 
ards the Japan plums was the fact that 
they (as judged by the Abundance, and 
later by Ogon, Willard and Satsuma) 
were, in the Rural Grounds, practically 
curculio proof. All other plums tried 
there—and we began 25 years ago—were 
not curculio proof, and the crops borne 
were not worth the soil the trees cov¬ 
ered. True it is that we might have 
jarred the trees, as do the nurserymen 
and orchardists, but the first object of 
the Rural Grounds experiments has been 
to find plums that were curculio proof, 
improved kinds of gooseberries and 
grapes that would yield large crops with¬ 
out spraying ; improved varieties of all 
kinds hardier and healthier than old 
kinds. 
Ouk Satsuma Japan plum was received 
from The Storrs & Harrison Company, 
Painesville, O., during October of 1894. 
It was harmed by the tornado, but bears 
a few plums this season, which were 
about ripe August 31. Fig. 255 shows 
the largest of them. The flesh is a deep 
red—with lilac bloom—and so, too, is 
the skin. It is a partial cling with the 
smallest pit of any of the Japs that we 
have seen. The quality is rather sour, 
but still it is refreshing and agreeable. 
It should make a rich preserve. 
The Diamond, all things considered, 
is the best white grape ever tried at the 
Rural Grounds, and this we say after a 
trial of seven years. The plants were 
received from the Diamond Grape Com¬ 
pany, Rochester, N. Y., during May of 
1889. It bears the largest bunches, the 
most compact bunches ; the berries do 
not crack or rot or mildew. The vine is 
hardy, prolific and healthy. The berries 
ripen early—they are now (August 27) 
softening. 
It is with much regret that we are 
obliged to conclude that the Munson 
grapes do not thrive at the Rural 
Grounds. 
It will be remembered that our own 
tree of Burbank was killed by a trial of 
the much-lauded Dendrolene, so that we 
may not speak of the Burbank from ex¬ 
perience. All of the reports we have 
had except the following, all the speci¬ 
mens we have received, would, however, 
lead to the conclusion that the Burbank 
is larger and slightly better in quality 
than the Abundance. 
C. F. McNair & Co., of Dansville, N. 
Y., favor us with an important bit of 
their experience which goes to show that 
we must not hastily conclude that, be¬ 
cause the Burbank is better in one 
locality, it is better in all: 
At the present time, there is a strong tendency 
in some quarters to condemn the Abundance 
plum, and as we are orchardists and have fruited 
both this and Burbank this season under similar 
conditions, we feel competent to give positive 
testimony as to the two fruits. Our soil is a stiff, 
red clay, on a steep side-hill; ground very dry. 
The trees are six years old, and have borne their 
first crop this year. Both sorts fruited too heavily, 
and were left without thinning purposely, but 
the Abundance are so much larger, better in 
color and quality, that we are surprised, and 
sent a plate of specimens to the State Fair at 
Syracuse to be in the exhibit of the Western 
New York Horticultural Society. The Abundance 
are larger than Bradshaw fruiting alongside, and 
fully equal to the best specimens of Lincoln as 
JAPAN PLUMS. 
AN OrEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT T. T. LYON, 
SOUTH HAVEN, MICH. 
DjarSir: Thank you very much for 
your late favor. We have just received 
your bulletins, and to say they are 
deeply interesting is not nearly to ex¬ 
press our full measure of appreciation. 
Only those who have done work along 
similar lines can form any adequate con¬ 
ception of the vast amount of work con¬ 
densed into your all-too-brief pages. 
We had hoped to visit your station some 
time in September, but fear that pres¬ 
sure of work will prevent, though we 
shall trust that it is only a pleasure de¬ 
ferred. 
In a hasty glance, we note a number 
of things with regard to which we would 
like to write you, but will defer it until 
a more convenient season. We note the 
following, however, with reference to 
some Japan plums which you are grow¬ 
ing. We believe that several of these 
we sent, either to you or to Prof. Taft, 
in the spring of 1890 ; anyhow, if they 
did not come from our nurseries, doubt¬ 
less they came from Mr. Berckmans, and 
our sorts and his are identical; there¬ 
fore, we feel assured that you will find 
little if any question as to the following : 
Yosebe, as you and some other grow¬ 
ers have it, is Earliest of All, but there 
is still another “Yosebe ” that is a much 
more <shy bearer, at least it has so proved 
with us. 
Wickson, we are glad to note, has 
done so well with you. We received 
this from Mr. Burbank a year in advance 
of its introduction, and have had several 
opportunities of testing the hardiness of 
the tree ; 22 degrees below zero did not 
brown the pith of the latest shoots, even 
in the slightest degree, so that the tree 
is, perhaps, equally hardy with Bur¬ 
bank. It fruited here this season, also, 
and is very fine indeed, in appearance, 
and quite fruitful. We think there may 
be some question as to its hardiness in 
bud, but doubt whether it will grade 
above Abundance or Burbank in this re¬ 
gard, whereas other sorts, notably Red 
June and Earliest of All, are very hardy 
in bud, and have given us six successive 
crops, while Abundance and Burbank 
have failed twice during the same period. 
In any event, it is certainly a most 
promising variety. 
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