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nearly round ; as grown in New York the quality is superb. I 

 shall plant more of this variety for local markets. 



Jacob Sweet. — A Massachusetts apple that promises to com- 

 bine all the good points that should be found in a late keeping 

 sweet apple. Large size, good color and high quality ; tree a slow 

 grower in nursery, but when grafted on mature trees, seedlings 

 or Talman stock, a bearing top is soon secured ; season February 

 to May. There will be a good local demand for a sweet apple of 

 this class. The fruit when ripened is as melting and juicy as 

 early Sweet Bough. 



Garden Royal. — An extra early apple of the highest quality, 

 medium size, red striped ; tree a strong, upright grower and an 

 annual bearer. This is a Vermont apple that is without a peer 

 as a dessert fruit, and should be propagated and introduced. 

 Origin, Windham County. 



PLUMS. 



Passing from the apple to the plum, I will first make brief 

 mention of Monarch, a recently introduced English plum, origi- 

 nating with T. Rivers & Son. It is large, late and handsome 

 and in quality rather better than Lombard. It has no fault in 

 growth of tree and hardiness of wood and fruit buds. 



Spaulding . — A very early ripening variety, almost as earl)' 

 as Abundance. The fruit is large, color yellowish-green, with 

 white bloom ; flesh juicy and very sweet, nearly a freestone, 

 growth of tree similar to Monarch. While it does not carry out 

 the claims of its introducers as to entire freedom from the attack 

 of the "little funk,' ' it has so far been entirely free from the brown 

 rot, one of the worst foes to plum culture. 



Giant Prune, Tennant Prune and Pacific Prune are new vari- 

 eties and have not fruited with me yet. The first two are strong 

 growers and seem perfectly hard)'. The Pacific is somewhat 

 tender. We had fruit of the Giant Prune at Rutland County 

 Fair last fall in a collection from Washington County, New York. 

 In size these specimens were somewhat larger than Pond's Seed- 

 ling, and the quality rich and sweet, as expected in so large a 

 plum. The texture of flesh was a little coarse; it is late in 

 ripening, about October ist Tennant prune, as grown by the 

 same party, is earlier in ripening ; flesh fine grained, color dark 

 purple with blue bloom, and quality excellent ; comes into bear- 

 ing early. 



PEARS. 



Vermont Beauty. — This pear is now quite well known in 

 New England and the Middle States, and as far as I know it 



