A CATALOG OF NEW FRUITS 
is splendid in every way. The flavor is delightfully good and the new variety will 
be appreciated by all lovers of choicely good fruits to eat out of hand or for 
culinary purposes. 
Beauty is an early Japanese plum that precedes Abundance. The fruits are 
medium in size, roundish conic, medium to dark red, and covered with a lilac 
bloom; skin thick and tough; flesh yellowish tinged red, very juicy, tender but 
stringy, subacid to sweet; good; clingstone. Beauty is a splendid sort to begin 
the plum season. 
Seedlings Growing in the Orchard 
They are Set Close in Order to Grow as Large a Number as Possible 
De Montfort. Old French, blue plum that deserves trial by lovers of high 
quality fruit. Tree hardy, vigorous and productive; fruit medium in size, round¬ 
ish-oval, and dark purple, flesh juicy, sweet, rich; freestone. Season late August. 
Formosa is a Japanese plum recommended for its productive trees and large 
fruits. The plums are oval to slightly cordate, greenish yellow nearly overlaid 
with red; flesh firm, juicy, melting, pale yellow, sweet and good; stone slightly 
clinging; ripens in midseason. It would be hard to find a more beautiful plum. 
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