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and yielded equally as heavy. Same color as Japanese, yellowish skin 

 overlaid with red, rather purplish red when fully ripe. 



Mr. Reed: The Wickson around St. Louis this year has done exceed- 

 ingly well. I was talking with several men growing plums quite exten- 

 sively, and they say Wickson does the best of any .Japanese variety there. 

 They are planting it extensively there, but I do not think it does well in 

 this State. 



Mr. Custer: How about the Osage plum? 



Mr. Henby; I would like to ask the gentleman who read the paper 

 on plums as to his experience with Pottawattami. My experience with 

 it as an ordchard tree is, that it is very short-lived, and not profitable 

 for market on account of its skin being pale red and not attractive. It 

 does not sell well in our market. The tree overbears and bears itself to 

 death in a very few years. We only get two or three crops from it until 

 it dies. 



Mr. Phelps: Can not say as to length of life, as my trees are five 

 years old and have borne three crops. I think it is much better than 

 Robinson. 



Mr. Shoemaker: The Pottawattamie has been bearing several years 

 for me. They are about nine years old and have been bearing A'ery 

 heavily ever since they had any top at all, and they show no sign so far 

 of dying. They have that fault of bearing very heavily every year, and 

 have never failed. Has any one had any experience with the Winot or 

 Hawkeye in Central Indiana? 



Mr. Little: Mr. Hobbs would tell you the Newman plum is the best. 

 I think the Minor is a very good plum. 



Mr. Phelps: We have trees of Newman, but they have not borne. 

 One point that is beneficial: cut the limbs out so the sun can strike all 

 part of trees. The native varieties will bear enough so you can cut 

 the tree and make it very thin. 



Mr. Dean: I want to hear about the Newman plum. 



Mr. Hobbs: We have been fruiting the Newman several years, and 

 like it very much. The tree has rather crooked limbs, and is not very 

 sightly. Bears reasonably young, fruit not quite as large as Wild Goose, 

 very attractive, quality very much better than Robinson or Wild Goose 

 or any other native variety when cooked, less stringent when cooked, and 

 later, ripens after Robinson. I think it is one of our best native plums. 

 Pottawattamie is an enormous producer with us, but our objection is itg 

 small size It is not stringent when cooked We have not fruited the 

 Milton. 



