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TREES, SHRUBS AND PLANTS FOR AMERICAN HOMES 
PLUMS 
European Varieties 
Bradshaw. Large, dark violet-red; flesh yellowish green, 
juicy, and pleasant. August. 
German Prune. Oval, purplish blue; rich, juicy, high flavor. 
September. 
Lombard. Roundish oval, violet-red; juicy and pleasant. Val¬ 
uable market sort. 
Reine Claude. Small, yellowish green; flesh pale green, 
melting, luscious. Standard of excellence. Mid-August. 
Shipper’s Pride. Large, round, dark purple, juicy, and 
sweet. Splendid shipper. September. 
Shropshire Damson. Small fruits, fine for preserving; 
flesh amber, juicy, and spicy. Abundant. September. 
Yellow Egg. Large and beautiful, yellow; a little coarse 
but excellent for cooking. Late August. 
Japanese Varieties 
Abundance. Rapid grower, healthy, bears young and 
abundantly. Fruit medium size, cherry-red, highly per¬ 
fumed; flesh light yellow, juicy, tender. Late July. 
Burbank. Large; orange-yellow, dotted with red; meaty, yel¬ 
low, sweet flesh. Good for market. Hardiest Japan plums. 
Late July. 
Red June. Very fine; early; productive; fair size, vermilion- 
red; pleasant quality. Late July. 
APRICOTS 
Talbert. Fruit medium, smooth, oval, golden yellow, moder¬ 
ately juicy, sweet. Regular and dependable in this latitude. 
Burbank Plums 
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Caco, The New Red Grape 
QUINCES 
Champion. Large and handsome; flesh cooks tender; fla¬ 
vor delicate. Abundant bearer. October. 
Orange. Large, roundish, small, short neck; golden flesh 
of excellent flavor. October. 
GRAPES 
All offered here are two-year, number one vines, the best. 
Agawam. Large, dark red, tender, juicy berries in large, 
compact bunches. 
Brighton. Bunch medium, compact. Berries dark crim¬ 
son, rich, and sweet. 
Caco. New variety, early bearing. Rich wine-red over 
amber. Very large berries and bunches. 
Campbell’s Early. Black. Large, early, and abundant. 
Good market variety. 
Catawba. Berries large, coppery red, purple when ripe. 
Bunches medium. Late. 
Concord. The well-known standard black market grape. 
Hardy, vigorous, and productive. 
Delaware. One of the best reds; bunches small, compact; 
berries small, sweet, delicious. Good market sort. 
Moore’s Diamond. Free from mildew and prolific. 
Bunches large, berries greenish white, tender, juicy. 
Moore’s Early. Black. Bunch large; hardy, and prolific. 
Two weeks earlier than Concord. 
Niagara. The standard white. Bunch large. Tough¬ 
skinned, making it ship well. 
Pocklington. Vigorous and hardy white grape. Fine fla¬ 
vor. Large, beautiful clusters. 
Salem. Coppery red berries in medium, compact bunches. 
Good market grape. 
Worden. A Concord seedling; similar to its parent but 
several days earlier. 
PERSIMMONS 
Native. Handsome ornamental tree. Fruit pungent when 
green, but sweet and palatable after early frosts. 
Grafted Sorts 
Glidewell. Large, oblong, good quality, no stringency; 
one of the best native persimmons. 
Ruby. New sort. Reported to be very good. 
