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have been made to carry as many as 600 varying seedling grafts. The Bartlett plum, cross of the bitter Chinese Simoni and the Delaware, itself a Simoni hybrid, has the exact fragrance and flavor of the Bartlett pear. The Climax, a successful shipping plum, is also a cross of the Simoni and the Japanese triflora. This Chinese Simoni produces almost no pollen, but few grains of it ever having been obtained. But these few grains have enabled Burbank to revolutionize the whole plum shipping industry. The sugar prune, which promises to supplant the French prune in California, is a selected product of a second or third generation variety of the Petite d'Agen, a somewhat variable French plum.

Next in extent probably to Burbank's work with plums and prunes