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STATE HORTICULTURAL. SOCIETY 

 PLUMS. 



Bailey is the name temporarily attached to a variety of the common 

 garden plum of the east, which was received, in scion, from S. S. Bailey of 

 Kent county, Michigan. It proves to be very vigorous, of upright habit, 

 and the fruit is of more than medium quality and size. It has produced a 

 few fruits this season for the first time here. 



Black Prune, Merunka, Moldovka, and Twenty Orel are varieties imported 

 by Prof. Budd of Iowa, from northeastern Europe. They are of the 

 domestica species and, should they prove productive, may be found desir- 

 able here. 



Botan (foisted upon the public as Abundance, for the apparent purpose 

 of promoting sales). Long Fruited, Masu, Ogon, Bed Nagate, Satsuma, 

 Shiro Sinomo and Yosebe are varieties coming from Japan. Satsuma is of 

 a type distinct from all others. It is large, round, and very dark purple iti 

 both skin and flesh. Yosebe is notable for its extreme earliness, it being 

 more than a week in advance of any other variety, though not of hi;.;h 

 quality. 



Bradshaw, Englebert, and Moore (Arctic) are extensively known aa 

 market varieties, wherever the domesticas are successful. 



