305. 
AN ORCHARD OF METHLEY PLUMS IN TEXAS. 
(Prunus salidna X cerasifera myrobalana, S. P. I. No. 31652.) 
The Methley plum has attracted wide and favorable comment from many parts of California 
and Texas. In Butte County, Calif,, it has commenced to bear at two years from 
planting, and has yielded regularly, maturing its fruits in the latter part of May. In 
Texas it has withstood, without apparent injury, a severe summer drought which 
damaged many other plants. Furthermore, it appears to be peculiarly free from dis- 
ease. The variety was introduced from Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa, where it 
is thought .to have originated as a cross between the Satsuma, a Japanese plum, and 
the Myrobalan, a European sort. (Photographed at the Texas Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station, College Station, Tex., November, 1921.) 
