In connection with a recent letter to Prof. E. J. Wickson, Mr. Burbank sends sixty-six varieties of new plums, all seedlings "of the tough little bush plum Maritima, which is about the size of a large garden pea." Some of these weigh nearly one fourth of a pound. The original bush grows about three feet high; the new varieties, fifteen or twenty feet. They are as certain to produce fruit annually, he tells us, as they are leaves or buds. They are untroubled by insects, fungus, or anything else, and all with one exception ripen between August 15 and November 15; the exception being a plum which weighs about one fourth of a pound each, which ripens from June 15 to September. All of them bloom after other plums are through blooming, thus escaping all spring frosts and vicissitudes of climate. In a postscript Mr. Burbank says, "Those samples are a few which I happen to have on hand to-day; have sixteen hundred more varieties of the same."
