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Bulletin 175. 



5. WiLLARD. — Fig. 27. 



Fruit medium to small in size, oblong, slightly angular, never 

 pointed, the sinus slight or scarcely any, the stem cavity rather 

 deep ; color bright red with a heavy bloom and many minute yellow 

 dots; flesh soft to firm, yellow, somewhat cling, with a decidedly 



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27. — Willard. One of the early plums, but quality very poor. 



mawkish or almond flavor, skin sour ; ripened this year July 23-25. 

 The fruit falls easily. The quality is very poor, and we believe that 

 the variety is not worth growing, particularly since there are earlier 

 varieties of better quality. The leaves are also very badly attacked 

 with the shot-hole fungus, being the worst in this respect of any of 



