PI. 265. 
THE PICKLED MUMES OP JAPAN. 
(Prunus mume Sieb. and Zucc. See S. P. I. No. 46694.) 
is hard to realize that there is a cultivated fruit so common in Japan as to form in its pickled 
condition part of the ration of the Japanese Army and yet be almost absolutely unknown 
in America. This fruit has a sour taste which is unlike that of any other pickle. When 
eaten with meats a taste for it can soon be cultivated. Inasmuch as the trees which bear 
it are hardy and apparently crown-gall resistant, this species of Prunus, belonging to the 
apricot rather than to the plum class, would appear to be worthy of our attention for 
stock purposes. (Photographed by E. L. Crandall, October 21, 1918; P24327FS.) 
