. The Burbank seed book / Luther Burbank Nursery Catalogue. A New Plum—"; ^. SULTAN. SULTAN. (SECTION). This huge, oval, deep piirpHsh crimson fruit is generally thought by those who have tested it to be the very best or one of the best plums produced. The flesh is remarkably firm and solid, fragrant, subacid or sweet, dark crim- son, beautifully clouded and shaded with light pink, salmon and light yellow; showing in the fruit a curious combination of ancestral dynamics. Remarkable for the great proportion of flesh compared with the diminutive seed. The tree grows ve
. The Burbank seed book / Luther Burbank Nursery Catalogue. A New Plum—"; ^. SULTAN. SULTAN. (SECTION). This huge, oval, deep piirpHsh crimson fruit is generally thought by those who have tested it to be the very best or one of the best plums produced. The flesh is remarkably firm and solid, fragrant, subacid or sweet, dark crim- son, beautifully clouded and shaded with light pink, salmon and light yellow; showing in the fruit a curious combination of ancestral dynamics. Remarkable for the great proportion of flesh compared with the diminutive seed. The tree grows very rapidly, but is compact and with wood and leaves as much like the Napoleon cherry as like a plum. Exceedingly productive; ripening here July 25th, a week before BURBANK, falls like apples soon as ripe; a great keeper. A basket of these plums would attract instant attention anywhere by their unusual size and remarkable beauty of form and color. The cut at the left is from a photograph taken in Santa Rosa, the one at the right at the New York Agricultural Experiment Station. " ' SULTAN ' is my choice of all the new plums which I have tested. It is a cross between Wickspn and Satsuma. It is large, being over two inches in diameter and nearly- round in shape. The surface is smooth, dark wine—red or garnet—being very handsome. The flesh is garnet color, too, and rich-looking. In flavor it is excellent, being tart enough, yet not sour, but a delicious subacid. No plum that I have eaten is better, and Avhen cooked, it could scarcely be equaled. It has all the high flavor of Satsuma when cooked, which has heretofore been far above all other plums when in that condition. The season of ' SULTAN ' is at least a month earlier, as it is fully ripe by August i. The tree is very fruitful. I look for this plum to take a high place in public ;—H. E. VanDeman in Rural Nezu Yorker. " The ' SULTAN ' is very large, very handsome and has a very pleasing, refreshing fl
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