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For nearly half a century Luther Burbank worked constantly with 
his plant-breeding problems. 
He always worked with a definite object in view. Take, for in- 
stance, the blood-fleshed plums—the tens of thousands of crosses made 
on this class of fruit were for the purpose of securing highest quality, 
largest size and a succession of ripening, so they could.be enjoyed 
throughout the entire ripening season. 
He collected hundreds of wonderful new hybrid fruits of out- 
Standing merit. Among them hundreds of plums, peaches, cherries— 
and for all different purposes. 
(Trade-Mark) Our $3,000 
Surbank Plum. Fruit, clear, 
Bright Golden Yellow, com- 
pletely blushed with light cherry red when 
fully ripe. Large, Delicious quality. ~Very 
young, tremendous bearer. Tennessee grower 
reports he picked three crops from 4-year old 
trees. Hardy for North. 
For eating fresh, canning, plum butter and 
jelly it is one of the best. Ships well. Thrives 
in chick yards, fruit gardens, commercial 
orchards from the Atlantic to the Pacific; 
from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. = 

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Half Plum—Half Apricot. Luther Bur- 
bank was the first man in the world to com- 
bine the flavor delights of both Plum and 
Apricot in one new fruit—the Plumcot. This 
PURPLE PLUMCOT is his finest. blood- 
fleshed variety—huge, often 2 in. across. Gor- 
geous purplish-red, with flesh blood-red clear 
to pit. Rich—irresistibly delicious. Perfect 
freestone. Is bearing splendidly. One of the 
best of all Burbank’s New Creations. Hardy 
—hbore after.24-below zero. 

URBANK’S EARLY. GOLD (Shiro). Mar- 
velously beautiful, trafsparent golden yellow 
plum—a huge honey-drop—sweet and excel- 
lent. Ripéns very, éarly..Andther great Bur- 
bank origination.: Fruit is extra large size 
and handsome. A tree*foaded with this gol- 
den fruit is a wonderful sight. Tree is hardy, 
very ‘prolific. Succeeds North and is one of 
the greatest plums, for ‘the South. Fine. for 
eating fresh, Sauce, plum butter, preserves, 
jelly. Recommended. for Chicken Yards, 
Home Yards. Local, Market Orchards. 
@® BURBANK’'S SANTA -ROSA,. Very Early. 
Favorite in Home~Yards. and Commercial 
Orchards. Won Gold. Medal at Lewis and 
Clark Exposition. Handsome, round, dark 
crimson plum; immense’ size, splendid qual- 
ity. Firm flesh, strong skin, ‘excellent ship- 
per. Hardy, strong grower, good bearer. 
Cooking, eating, canning, market. 
@® BURBANK’'S AMERICA. Very Early. A 
full brother of Gold, Large, glossy, coral 
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—red—a most beautiful and delicious plum. 
Can always be depended on for crop. Tree 
‘large, very vigorous, thoroughly hardy, bears 
~ extremely young, and bears enormous crops 
a 
_-' “Almost phenomenally free from rot.”— 
every year. 
Succeeds everywhere. Excellent 
for eating fresh, canning, plum butter. Es- 
pecially good for Chicken Yards and Fruit 
Gardens. / 
" Plums of N. Y. “Uninjured by 55 degrees 
-@ ABUNDANCE. Early. A large, bright, cher- 
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_ chard—home yard and commercial. 
‘eat fresh and for cooking, canning, plum 
butter and preserves. 
below. zero.”—J. R. Williams, Elmsdale, 
Quebec. “Hardy, good quality and does not 
'rot.’"—E. H. Riehl, I11. 
ry red plum. Firm, sweet, excellent quality. 
Ships well. The tree is hardy, healthy and 
productive. Should be planted in every or- 
Good to 
Burbank’s—U. S. Patented 
Earliest Yellow Freestone Plum. Ripens 
even earlier than Early Shiro and is much 
larger. Largest, most outstanding solid gold- 
en plum of all the Burbank Wonder Crea- 
tions. Our Test Orchard Supt. describes it 
as “a huge, wonderfully beautiful pure 
golden plum, large as a small apple,” A free- 
stone when fully ripe, from 2 to 2% inches 
in diameter, excellent quality and with «a 
very tiny seed for such a large plum. The 
name, GREAT YELLOW, was given it by 
Burbank, and is most fitting for it is pure 
yeliow without sign of blush. Best of the 
Early Yellow Plums—mild and sweet, with 
just the right touch of acid near seed. Top 
budded limbs only a year and a half old bore 
a splendid crop of huge plums in North Mis- 
souri, after 14 below zero. The beauty of 
this huge translucent golden plum is beyond 
description. Flesh is very solid, and holds 
up remarkably well in shipping. Home Yards 
and Commercial Orchards should plant 
Great Yellow. 
BURBANK’'S INDIAN BLOOD (Duarte). 
A fine red-fleshed plum, but Elephant Heart 
larger, better. Trees*upright fast growers, 
hardy. Fruit large, egg-shaped+flesh deep 
blood color, quality delicious. A plum of all 
around merit. Eating, cooking, canning, mar- 
ket. Thrive in Chicken Yards, Home- and 
Commercial Orchards. 
SUPERIOR (Minnesota 194). New. At last 
a Super-Hardy. plum* producing very large 
handsome fruit. for fart ‘North. Prof..W. H. 
Alderman wrote, “Undoubtedly best plum in- 
troduced by Minn. Station.” Tree outstanding 
for hardiness, vigor, early and prolific bear- 
ing. Fruit very large, beautiful dark red. 
Flesh rich yellow; firm, juicy—a_lively sweet 
flavor. Excellent for eating fresh, plum but- 
ter, jelly and preserves: «: Home Yard~ and 
Commercial Orchards. tt 
OMAHA — Iron-Ciad — Hardy Plum — 
Mid-Season. A very large plum. Dark rich 
red. Almost perfectly round. Golden yellow 
flesh is meaty, sweet and delicious. 
Originated by” Theo. Williams, a plum 
authority of Nebraska, who consideed Omaha 
the best of all Iron-Cladhardy plums. 
Extremely Hardy “After Coldest New Hamp- 
shire winter in 13 years Omaha still thriv- 
ing” reports L. L. Colby. Excellent for eat- 
ing fresh, for canning, cooking, plum butter 
and jelly. Thrives in Chicken Yards, Home 
Fruit Gardens and Commercial Orchards. 
When we introduced it Mr. Williams 
wrote: “No other plum is so cosmopolitan 
as Omaha—it has fruited from Alberta, 
Canada, to the Gulf and from New Hamp- 
shire to the Pacific.” 
LATE GOOSE. One of the best Hardy 
Plums. Red, resembling Wild Goose, but 
much larger and much more valuable. Strong 
grower, extremely hardy. A heavy bearer. 
Should be grown everywhere. for home use 
and market. More popular than old Wild 
Goose because of its immense size. Eating, 
cooking, canning, market. 
STARK 
DAMSON 

AMERICA 
ELEPHANT HEART 
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REC. U, S.PATERT OFFICE: 
Burbank’s Greatest New Plum Creations 
~More.-work was probably done by Luther Burbank on plums, 
peaches and cherries than on other fruits, but his marvelous new 
creations of roses, pears, nectarines, prunes, plumcots and other fruits 
and flowers also stand in a class by themselves. 
Our experts are confident that the new Burbank creations we are 
now offering will far outclass all other varieties of similar type and 
season. For example, many of his Plum Creations are so different from 
ordinary plums that they are almost distinct New Fruits—differing 
almost as much as peaches differ from pears. 
Burbank’s New Freestone Giant, 
Red-Flesh Sensation. Largest 
Plum Grown—Amazing Flavor. Strong Grower. Hardy. The greatest 
triumph of all the Master Plant Breeder’s painstaking life work of 
striving to create a freestone blood-fleshed plum of enormous size and 
— a glo- 
the 
transcendant quality and flavor 
rious success and one that represents 
first fruition of our \expert’s continuance 
of his life’s work. Starting ‘way back 
half a Century ago with 12 little seeding 
trees he worked diligently towards his goal. 
And—NOW—the triumphant climax, Bur- 
bank’s “Elephant Heart,” the supreme BEST 
of over 800 new varieties. of great promise 
that were perfected and bequeathed to Stark 
Bro’s after his years and years of exacting 
selection and rejection, when we took over 
the Burbank Experimental Gardens. After 
Stark Bro’s years of tests of this plum—it 
earned a place at the very peak of Burbank’s 
horticultural creations. One of the outstand- 
ing achievements of the Greatest Fruit Won- 
der Worker in the World’s History. 

4 For Young Bearing, a Longer Ripening Season, Heaviest Bearing, Better Pollination, 
Plant Several Varieties. Plums Below Are Listed in Order of Ripening. 
Plums are popular as yard or garden trees 
because they produce needed shade as well 
as an abundance of delicious fruit. And they 
prosper with little or no care. Plums are 
good for stews, preserving, jellies, 
also canning. Plum tarts and many other de- 
lightful plum recipes delight every member 
of the family. Plums thrive in practically all 
good soil and are especially fine in chicken 
yards. 
STARK GREEN GAGE — Our Favorite 
Sweet as honey. Larger and better than 
old Green Gage. For preserving and canning 
it has no superior. Excellent eating 
fresh, canning, cooking, preserving, market. 
GERMAN PRUNE —Mid-Season. Our 
strain of German Prune is very large, 
hardy. Dark blue skin with light bloom. Yel- 
low flesh is sweet, juicy and delicious. Ex- 
cellent for eating fresh, for canning, drying 
and preserving. Thrives in Home Yards and 
in Commercial Orchards wherever prunes 
grow. 
STARK DAMSON. The largest and best 
American Damson. A true freestone. Our 
propagation from extra-productive, record- 
bearing parent tree. Fruit deep purple, juicy, 
rich, small stone, fine for preserves. Tree up- 
right, hardy, resistant to diseases, easy to 
grow, produces immense crops. Damsons are 
money makers and should be in every Home 
and Commercial Orchard. Excellent for pre- 
serves, canning, jelly and plum butter. 
OTHER VARIETIES. We can also furnish 
the following other varieties of plums: Ital- 
jan Prune, Burbank, Compass, Shropshire 
Damson, Red June, Tatge, Lombard Im- 
proved, Underwood Plums, President Prune 
and Stanley Prune. 
jams, 
for 
Blood Flesh Freestone. Mid-Season. Re- 
sembles Elephant Heart. Gorgeous, large, 
red-fleshed plum, fit companion of Great 
Elephant Heart. Burbank describes. it “Big— 
firm—small seed—sweet as sugar. Rich, full 
of delicious juice—regularly productive.” Tree 
fine, strong grower. Wonderful shipper, Tree 
very young and heavy bearer. Never winter 
killed. Has withstood 24 below zero. 3-year 
old trees in Mo. loaded with huge crops. For 
eating fresh, canning, market. For Home Yard 
and Commercial Orchards. 
For-complete list of New Burbank Plum 
Creations, see Price List—Page 14. 
VAN DEMAN. (Trade- Mark) Our 
$3,000.00 Burbank Quince. Best and 
largest of the Quinces — originated 
years ago by the great Luther Bur- 
bank—and today it still stands as the 
supreme and most desirable quince— 
no other variety compares with it in 
size, beauty and flavor. 
ORANGE. An old favorite—still wide- 
ly planted, but inferior to Van Deman 

—a vigorous, productive tree—good 
in quality. 
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