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some plum, of good size and quality ; ripens fifteen days later than 

 Wild Goose, enormous bearer. Mornian, ripens late in August, a 

 very pretty round plum, long stem, size of a large cherry, small 

 stone, for domestic purposes valuable ; quality. No. 1. Golden 

 Beauty, ripens September 1st to 10th, it is an enormous bearer, fruit 

 actually hiding foliage, beautiful golden yellow, clear skin, of good 

 medium size and quality. The Round plum was sent me by Mr. 

 Spears, of Cedar Kapids, Iowa ; it is a very fine native plum, second 

 to none of its class when canned, valuable for domestic purposes. 



Cherries — The Montmorency takes the lead for a valuable 

 cherry of the Morrello class, for the last few weeks of June, either 

 for a home or market cherry. We discovered a valuable late cherry 

 growing in Union and Pulaski counties ; large, long stem, with a 

 prominent suture on one side, black when ripe, dark flesh, of fine 

 appearance, sour and very astringent, hangs on until middle of July ; 

 is probably the Elkhorn of eastern catalogues. 



A'pples — We fruited Grand Sultan and Tetofsky again this 

 year. The Grand Sultan is an enormous bearer, ripens July 15th ; 

 of medium to large size, beautiful clear skin, almost white, very 

 smooth and handsome, very much like Yellow Transparent in size 

 and quality. Black Twig, from Tennessee, promises to be good for 

 Southern Illinois. We have in the south end of the state a number 

 of apples, not generally known, that bid fair to be successful rivals 

 of some of the older varieties. Among them may be named John- 

 son County Red, Red Winter Pippin, Sparks, Terril, Picket, Ingram, 

 Shackleford, York Imperial. Indian is a fine growing orchard tree. 

 The present season has been a very difficult one to save specimens of 

 new apples, the excessive rains of August caused a great amount of 

 rot in fruit, so that our promising supply of specimens of new 

 varieties disappeared before time for ripening. 



Peaches — Of new varieties coming under my own observation, 

 the Thurber is hardy, very large free stone of fine appearance ; 

 A No. 1 market peach. Elberta, a large oblong peach, with a rich 

 yellowish cast of skin, blush on sunny side, of good quality; a very 

 fine valuable market peach. The Ede originated with Captain Ede, 

 of Cobden, Illinois ; large free stone of delicious quality, a valuable 

 August market peach ; this is one of the most delicious peaches I 

 have ever tasted. Freeman's Late originated with H. C. Freeman, 

 of Alto Pass ; is a fine, valuable market peach for last week in 

 August, a good shipper of the Smock type, but b}' no means a Smock ; 

 it is of fine appearance and quality and very satisfactory. 



Mr. Coe — We have a collection of seedlings and new varieties 

 of fruit on exhibition from our own and neighboring states, and 

 some of them are very promising. It seems to me that it is the 



