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appearance of a yellow-red fruit, bearing a thin bloom and having 

 many yellow specks ; flesh soft and juicy, yellow, cling, of good 

 quality, but the skin sour ; ripened with us this year on the 24:th of 

 August. The fruit has a very slender stem and drops easily from 

 the tree. The tree is a moderately spreading grower, being inter- 

 mediate in liabit between the Georgeson and Abundance. The fruit 

 is of good quality, but for the last two seasons it has failed to color 

 well and has dropped prematurely. The trees have not been very 



38. — Wickson. The largest of the hardy varieties. 



productive, although they have borne for three consecutive years. 

 From its behavior thus far, we are of the opinion that the Hale 

 should not be put in the first or leading list of Japanese plums for 

 western New York. It follows the Georgeson, being in condition 

 for eating when the last specimens of the Georgeson are passing. 



16. Wickson.— Fig. 38. 



Fruit very large, ta2)ering from toward the base, and long heart- 

 shaped with a deep strong suture ; color usually a deej) maroon red, 



