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the Mariana, Potowatomia, De Soto, Wolf Free, Forcst'Rose, 

 Robinson and several other new kinds. We have not fruited 

 them yet. The Mariana bore a few plums about the size of the 

 Wild Goose, of fine appearance. We have about five hundred 

 plum trees now growing in our orchard and all are doing well, 

 making good growth. At some future time we may be better able 

 to give a more complete report. Our trees were planted sixteen 

 feet each way. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Gaston — I am familiar with the Wild Goose, the Mariana 

 and the Chickasaw pluns. I think the gentleman in his paper 

 refers to the Newman plum. It seems to follow the Wild Goose; 

 it is a week or two later. I think the name Chickasaw should not 

 come in here. 



Mr. AVebster — We have at Centralia seven varieties of the 

 Chickasaw plum. They are all more or less profitable. The 

 Newman is one of our most profitable plums also. 



Mr. Shank — I have never seen these plums fruiting, but I have 

 had nearly twenty years' experience with the Miner. In regard 

 to the Chickasaw, I think that is the name of a species. 



Mr. McKinney — I have had experience with the Miner ever 

 since it was introduced. I bought them at a dollar a piece from a 

 man at Galena. It was ten years before they began to bear, and 

 I am satisfied that the reason they began to bear then was because 

 there were other plums by the side of them. They were sur- 

 rounded by Wild Goose, but where they are isolated and the pol- 

 len from the other varieties does not reach them they do not bear. 



Mr. Vandenberg — I would ask if any of the members have the 

 Wild Goose separate from other trees that are bearing well ? 



Mr. Gaston — Where they are planted separate they are a fail- 

 ure, but where put by the side of the Miner and others they do 

 well. At Lacon, one of our men has put out 900 different va- 

 rieties. 



Mr. Gay — I have two Wild Goose plum trees, and they are per- 

 haps thirty or forty rods apart. They both bear well every other 

 year. There is no other plum tree near them, not nearer than 

 perhaps half a mile. One of the trees had ten bushels of fruit on 

 it this year, actual measurement. 



