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Agrioultukal Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



all of these areas there are native varieties which succeed. The 

 natives are inferior in size and flavor to the common plums, but 

 it must be remembered that the native plum industry is in its 

 infancy, and that great results should not yet be expected. It is 

 rather a matter of wonder that the present results have been 

 attained with the expenditure of so little effort. The great varia- 

 tion in almost every direction in the existing varieties, and the 

 fact that they spring from three or four distinct species, augur 

 well for the future; while the facts that they find ready sale in 

 the markets* and that many people make their cultivation profit- 

 able, are encouragements to present effort. 



n. THE CHEERIES. 



1. The Hand or Dwarf Cherries. — (Figs. 13 and 14). — The dwarf 

 sand cherry has often attracted attention as a meritorious fruit. 

 In 1867, A. S. Fuller* published an important account of it and 



Figure 13. — Sand Cherry (Prunua pumila). Natural size. 



recommended its cultivation for fruit. In 1889, Professor C. E. 

 Bessey called the attention of the American Pomological Society 



* " And as for the Wild Qoose plum, it is the best we have here. There have been shipped 

 from here as many as 600 boxes of this variety in a single day, and have sold in Chicago markets 

 at the enormous price of two dollars per one-third bushel box, or six dollars per bushel."— J. R. 

 Logan, Duquoin, 111., in are«^n"s Fruit Grower, July, 1891. Mr. Kerr sold Wild Goose readily in 

 1889 for sixty -five to eighty cents for ten-pound baskets; and in 1891 for forty to fifty cents. 



t Small Fruit Culturist, 1st ed., 183. 



