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[Diane Whitehead <voltaire@islandnet.com>]

From Advances in Fruit Breeding edited by Janick and Moore, Purdue  
University Press, 1975:

Plums by John H. Weinberger  is a short survey of plum development  
worldwide, packed with information, with a good bibliography. Here is  
an excerpt:

(Burbank) imported P. salicina seedlings from Japan in 1884 and 1885.   
Several selections from them were named and introduced, including  
'Burbank', 'Abundance' and 'Satsuma'.  Later he made crosses between  
P. salicina and other species .... His 'Santa Rosa' cultivar which  
contains a mixture of P. salicina, P. simonii and P. americana ....   
(Howard 1945  Luther Burbank's plant contributions.   
Calif.Agr.Expt.Sta. Bul. 691)


Diane Whitehead