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and it blossoms too early to always escape frost. It is largely grown in California 

 where conditions are more adapted to its requirements. 



Yellow Egg. This variety is widely distributed and well-known, but is losing 

 favor because of its susceptibility to rot. Its large size and yellow color make it 

 attractive to the purchasing consumer, but its quality is only fair. It has not 

 won a leading place in years of test in Ontario. 



At present plum breeding or variety improvement is not receiving as much 

 attention as some of the other fruits at the Experimental Farm, Vineland, but they 

 are not being neglected and some attempts were made at hand pollination this 

 year. Few plums set, but the results are far from being discouraging. A few seed- 

 lings are growing in the nursery plots. 



A Shiro plum that gave 7 quarts of good 

 fruit the third year. 



The following varieties are under test: — Eockford, Improved Lombard, Arch 

 Duke, Victoria, Gideon, Eeine Claude, Moore's Arctic, Fellenberg, Smith's Or- 

 leans, Yellow Egg, Pearl, Field, Gueii, Cullin's Golden Gage, Tennant Prune, Early 

 Prolific, King of the Damsons, Duane's Purple, Early T'ransparent, Blue Permain, 

 German Prune, Moyer, Pond Seedling, Shipper's Pride, Coe's Golden Drop, Mary, 

 Early Rivers, Mallard, Washington, Shropshire Damson, Beauty of Naples, Togo, 

 General Hand, Monarch, Quackenboss, Lombard, Ancaster, Latchford, "Warner's 

 Late, Staunton, Monroe, Imperial Gage, Bleaker's Gage, Emerald, Lowry's Gage, 

 Maynard, Formosa, Vesuvius, Santa Eosa, Gaviota, Eed Egg, Huling's Superb, 

 McLaughlin, Canada Orleans, Grand Duke, Satsuma, Kelsey, Shiro, Oriental, 

 Bartlett, Diamond, French Damson, Purple Egg, Kingston, America, Prunus 

 Simoni, Burbank, Willard, Chabot, Earliest of All, Waugh, Czar, Saunders, 



