. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. SUPPLEMENT TO AMERICAN FLORIST. son or cherry red; skin very thin with no acerbity ; flesh or pulp very fine grained, very juicy, abundant free blood red juice, when fully lipe melting and delicious. AVe may say first best in quality to eat from hand when fully ripe. The plum when first matuie is quite firm and will prove a good long shipper. When over ripe becoming very soft, but still juicy, and not mushy. In size the plums ex- amined were about the size of the native plum known as Miner, or about the size of th
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. SUPPLEMENT TO AMERICAN FLORIST. son or cherry red; skin very thin with no acerbity ; flesh or pulp very fine grained, very juicy, abundant free blood red juice, when fully lipe melting and delicious. AVe may say first best in quality to eat from hand when fully ripe. The plum when first matuie is quite firm and will prove a good long shipper. When over ripe becoming very soft, but still juicy, and not mushy. In size the plums ex- amined were about the size of the native plum known as Miner, or about the size of the well known Green Gage, but it is said to grow much larger. Stem longer and more slender than that of theKelsey which is very short and thick for a plum. The pit of the Satsuma is quite small for the size of the fruit, roundish, somewhat pitted and corrugated. I am intensely interested in these plums. This Satsuma very closely re- sembles in tree, leaf and growth a plum tree sent east from California under the name Ogon, which proved quite hardy with me in Illinois in our severest win- ters, much more so than the Kelsey, and it may be that some of these fine fruits may do well in the great Northwest. Since I wrote of the Kelsey last month I had some of them stewed for sauce, and found them very nice served in that way. Many young orchards in different parts of this state, of the Kelsey have fruited for the first time in quantity this year, and all report them very productive and profitable. The keeping qualities of these plums are truly remarkable. I have before me a vei)- large specimen of the Kelsey gathered when fully mature one month ago yesterday. It is yet per- fectly sound. That the Kelsey is quite near to the peach in many of its peculiarities is plain to any one who will examine it critically. It has the stem and pit of the peach. The pit is corrugated, pitted and shaped like that of the peach, and the kernel has the same skin and flavor, and fully bears out the view
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