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long keeper and, if picked before it is thoroughly ripe, will ordinarily 

 shrivel before it decays. The quality is medium ; it has a little of 

 the mawkish almond flavor, and is usually not prized for eating from 

 the hand. I doubt if it is destined to be a very pojDular variety. It 

 is one of the commonest varieties. 



We refer the White Kelsey of Normand to the Georgeson from 

 specimens which we grew this year upon grafts set on Lombard 



35, — Georgeson. A yelloio plum of long -keeping qualiti&i. 



stocks. We have not fruited Mikado. One party exhibited speci- 

 mens of Mikado and Yeddo at the State Fair this j'ear, and these 

 were the Georgeson. Mr. Normand, however, in a trade circular 

 says that the Mikado ripens fifteen days earlier than the Yeddo. 

 The Yeddo, as we have fruited it, seems to be Georgeson. 



