1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Japan Plums. 
( CONTINUED.) 
Red June we received under the name 
of Shiro Smomo. It has proved, with 
u3, the one most valuable Japan, par¬ 
ticularly on account of hardiness in bud 
and consequent sure cropping ; second, 
because of early ripening, hence is com¬ 
paratively exempt from rot; and third, 
it has a solid red color, which makes it 
attractive on the market—to say noth¬ 
ing of its earliness. Another point of 
great value among Japans is that it is 
very persistent, whereas Earliest of All 
and some others drop as soon as colored, 
consequently we gather the fruit of the 
latter by gently shaking the trees at in¬ 
tervals of one or two days, and market 
the fruit in strawberry boxes. 
Orient is, no doubt, Red Nagate as 
you have it. That is the name under 
which we received Orient, but it is not 
the Red Nagate of other growers, the 
Red June being the Red Nagate grown 
in most nurseries so far as we know. 
Lonqfruit is a small, early sort, the 
tree most vigorous and hardy, but never 
has been fruitful ; in fact, remarkably 
unproductive, consequently of no value, 
to say nothing of being two to three 
weeks later than Earliest of All. 
Maru, though fairly fruitful while 
the trees were yet young, has proved of 
no value. The quality is very poor, and 
trees have died very badly from winter- 
killing ; besides, its season is nearly 
that of Abundance (the true Sweet 
Botan originally introduced by Mr. Bur¬ 
bank, the variety which invariably pro¬ 
duces pointed fruit). Unfortunately, 
the first season after we had Maru, it 
set a few fruits, whereas none of our 
other Japans set any that year, hence, 
in writing Mr. Berckmans, we called 
attention to the fact that it seemed to 
be hardier in bud than the other Japans, 
and this much-to-be-regretted commen¬ 
dation has been continued by Mr. Berck¬ 
mans in his catalogue for several years. 
We regard the Maru of but little value 
with us compared with the better sorts. 
Chabot, as grown here and elsewhere 
as we have seen it, is certainly not the 
original Chabot introduced by Mr. Bur¬ 
bank, who described it as a “ perfect 
freestone and loses less in drying than 
any other Japan.” Specimens of Chabot 
as received this season from Leonard 
Coates, Napa, California, have been per¬ 
fect freestones, and evidently a week or 
10 days earlier than Orient received at 
the same time, and perhaps three weeks 
earlier than Chabot as grown here and 
elsewhere east of the Rocky Mountains ; 
therefore, we take it that the clingstone 
Chabot now commonly grown is not the 
original and true variety. 
Burbank No. 2 , with us, has proved 
identical with Abundance or true Sweet 
Botan. We believe that this has been 
the case, also, with Mr. Berckmans. 
Burbank makes one of the hardiest 
and healthiest trees of the Japan race 
in orchard, but somewhat tender in bud 
and fruit, and not nearly so good in 
quality as Abundance. 
Berckmans, as it is now called, we 
originally received from Mr. Berckmans 
under the name of Sweet Botan, and is 
the variety that is grown by many now 
as Abundance ; but with us, it is not 
nearly so valuable, has given only two 
crops in six years, and the trees in or¬ 
chard are nearly all dying from winter- 
killing. The variety, Mr. Berckmans 
wrote us, was an accidental mixture 
found among the true Sweet Botan as 
received from Mr. Burbank. 
Abundance, or true Sweet Botan, as 
we have it, nearly always produces 
fruit with a very sharp and clearly de¬ 
fined apex, rarely an exception, and 
when well ripened, is of most excellent 
quality, a far more valuable sort than 
the Berckmans. 
Burbank No 2 has not been very 
fruitful with us, and the fruit falls as 
soon as colored. We sent samples of the 
fruit to Prof. Bailey and Mr. Willard, 
who thought it possibly identical with 
Willard, but we are inclined to believe 
the two distinct; anyhow the Burbank 
No 2 has no value with us. 
Normand is identical with Hattankio 
No. 1 of Mr. Berckmans, Qeorgeson, of 
Prof. Bailey, and Mikado as recently 
sent out by Mr. Normand. We note 
that Mr. Van Deman, in a late R N.-Y. 
says that Normand and Ogon are iden¬ 
tical. This is most certainly an error, 
though earlier in the season we had the 
same report from one of our California 
correspondents. We think the difficulty 
has been that they either have not the 
genuine Normand, or they have a spuri¬ 
ous Ogon. Normand, as fruited here, is 
very large, but of greenish, unattractive 
color, and only ordinary quality, and 
particularly susceptible to fruit rot. 
Ogon gave us the first good crop this 
season which we have had in the dozen 
years or so we have been growing the 
variety ; but the trees were under most 
favorable conditions in a chicken yard ; 
they were bending under loads of very 
beautiful fruit, but of only ordinary 
quality, though a perfect freestone with 
a notably small pit. It ripens between 
Red June and Abundance. 
Marunka, according to your descrip¬ 
tion, also the fuller description in the 
report of the United States Pomologist, 
is undoubtedly, identical with the vari¬ 
ety which we have fruited for several 
years in our Denver orchards. There it has 
proved the earliest of the Domestica type, 
and of fine size and excellent quality ; 
the tree, however, is a very indifferent 
grower. It ripens at Denver some days 
ahead of the early California variety, 
Clyman, is of more than double the size, 
and very much higher quality. We 
planted five trees received under the 
name of Merunka, two of which were the 
variety just described, the other three 
proving a very indifferent and about 
worthless sort. To learn which was the 
true Marunka, w<» obtained specimens 
of fruit from the Geneva (N. Y ) Experi¬ 
ment Station, and these were identical 
with our worthless sorts ; therefore, we 
conclude that the Geneva Station has 
not the variety as you have it, and as we 
have fruited it at Denver. 
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