Notes Upon Plums. 183 



Canada Orleans. — A very productive variety of medium size obtained at 

 Hamilton, Ontario. Skin light green to yellow shaded to light purple in 

 the sun ; quality good ; ripening August 15th to 20th. Tree hardy, bearing 

 good crops alternate years. Of no special value to the market grower. 



Coe^s Golden Drop. — Of English origin. Fruit large, oval or short egg- 

 shape ; skin light yellow ; flesh rich and quality excellent when well rip- 

 ened ; requires a quick soil and favorable season to ripen it well. Tree slow, 

 poor grower but very hardy ; has produced best with me when top-worked 

 on other strong growing sorts. In unfavorable seasons has shown inclina- 

 tion to rot, but it may be regarded as one of the good yellow plums. This 

 plum, or something exceedingly like it, has been sent out on the Pacific 

 Coast as a prune. 



Coe^s Lale Red. — An English variety. Fruit medium size; skin light 

 purplish red ; flesh yellow ; very firm and excellent for preserving or ship- 

 ping ; productive and late, ripening in October and frequently hanging well 

 into November. The late John J. Thomas once said to me, if he could have 

 only one variety of plum, this would be his choice because of its lateness 

 and value for culinary purposes. As a tree, its growing habits are unsatis- 

 factory, and, therefore, it will never be popular with nurserymen. It will 

 do best top-worked on vigorous growing sorts. 



Copper (French). — A late plum,very productive and profitable, ripening last 

 of September, frequently hanging into October ; fruit medium, dark copper 

 color and valuable for preserving. Tree a poor grower ; hence, can rarely 

 be found in hands of nurserymen. It should be worked on some strong 

 growing sort. A fine shipper and usually sells at good prices. [Fruit globu- 

 lar, copper-purple with thin bloom. Valuable because of extreme lateness, 



— I,. H. B.] 



Cruger's Scarlet. — A variety that several years since was grown largely in 

 the vicinity of Geneva. The name indicates the color, which makes it attrac- 

 tive when grown exposed to the sun, but the size and quality being against 

 it both for market and family use, it has been supplanted by others of more 

 value. 



* Curlew. — An enormous bearer of attractive large, deep blue fruit, ripen- 

 ing just before the middle of August ; but the foliage drops early, preventing 

 at times a fair maturity of the crop and unfitting the tree to withstand the 

 severity of our winters. 



* Czar. — Origin, England. A large, early, purple plum, rich and good ; 

 ripening about July 25th ; very productive. Defective in foliage ; though 

 fine in quality of fruit, it is of no value. Its extreme earliness would make 

 it valuable were it more hardy. 



* Diamond (Fig. 40, VI.). — I^arge, dark purple, with a beautiful bloom which 

 renders it very attractive in appearance and sought for on the markets. Tree 

 very productive, hardy and one of the best of English introductions, and, 

 in my opinion, when better known, will be highly regarded as an orchard 

 variety. 



