[97] Several apricots and the loquat of southern Japan are also called Japanese plums. The name Triflora for common usage avoids this confusion and conforms with the growing usage in horticulture of using the specific name alone.
[98] Bailey says, (Cornell Sta. Bul. 62:6. 1894) speaking of these specimens: “I have no hesitation in saying that our Japanese plums are the same.” The writer examined the specimens in the summer of 1909 and recognized them at once to be the same as the cultivated Triflora plums.
[99] February 23, 1909.
[100] pp. 10, 45.
[101] March 12, 1909.
[102] Fl. Indica 501. 1824.
[103] Forbes and Hemsley Jour. Linn. Soc. 23:219. 1886-88.
[104] Cornell Sta. Bul. 62:3. 1894.
[105] Berckmans, L. A. Rpt. Ga. Hort. Soc. 15. 1889.
[106] Bailey, L. H. Cornell Sta. Buls. 62, 106, 139, 175.