NOTES ON PLUM CULTURE. 
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BOTAN. JAPANESE GROUP. {Primus trifl-ora.) 
Our trees were planted in 1897 an d 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. {Primus tviflora.) 
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. {Primus Americana.) 
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. (P 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. 
Fruit fig. 1, plate V; tree, plate VIII. 
CHOPTANK. WILD GOOSE GROUP. {Prunus 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. 
