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Monitor—fruit is medium to large, roundish ovate, dull bronze-red, good in 
quality and a clingstone. Tree is vigorous, very hardy and productive. A 
Japanese-American hybrid produced by the Minnesota Experiment Station. 
Pacific—a very large, bluish-colored, freestone plum of good quality and of 
midseason. This variety has been reintroduced by the Association owing 
to its good performance in trial orchards. 
Pearl—is a medium-sized yellow plum originated by Luther Burbank. Its 
quality is exceptionally sweet and rich. Recommended for the home garden. 
Red Wing—fruit is oblong, medium, dull red, freestone, and good in quality. 
Tree productive and hardy. Another Minnesota hybrid. Recommended 
where European plums are tender. 
Sannois—is a very late reddish purple French plum of medium size. It is one 
of the sweetest and most delectable varieties of all the plum family. 
Recommended for the home garden. 
Santa Rosa—is one of Burbank’s noteworthy Japanese plums which in nearly 
all characters of tree and fruit surpasses Abundance and Burbank. The 
tree is a prolific bearer, and the large attractive fruits keep and ship well. 
Santa Rosa is one of the best Japanese plums on the grounds of the 
Experiment Station at Geneva. 
Stanley—is a cross between Agen and Grand Duke. The fruit is of the prune 
type, excellent for cooking or eating out of hand. The tree is healthy, vigor- 
ous, and produces full crops annually. The fruit is large in size, dark blue 
with thick bloom; flesh greenish yellow, juicy, fine-grained, tender, firm, 
sweet, pleasant; quality good to very good; stone free; midseason. This 
variety is becoming a valuable commercial variety. 
Surprise—is recommended as a suitable pollinator for the American-Japanese 
hybrid plums—Red Wing and Monitor. The fruit is small, attractive red, 
clingstone. Best of the American varieties, Tree very vigorous and pro- 
ductive. 
Yakima—a very large, prune-shaped, purplish red, freestone, good-quality 
plum. Tree is vigorous and upright. Recommended for local markets. 
GRAPES 
At Geneva and Fredonia over 30,000 grape seedlings have been grown. 
Naturally many promising seedlings that seem to be well worthy of trial 
appear from time to time. In order to secure early information in regard to 
their value under varied soil and climatic conditions, they are distributed 
before their commercial value is known. 
Athens (Sta. 12046)—is a promising black grape of the Concord type that 
ripens about a month earlier. Vine very vigorous, hardy, and very pro- 
ductive; bunches medium to large, loose and tapering; berries larger than 
the Concord, roundish oval, black with a heavy bloom; flesh tough, sweet, 
slightly foxy, good quality. Well worthy of trial as an early black grape of 
the Concord type. Parentage — Hubbard crossed with Portland. 
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