CATALOGUE OF 1870. 



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SECTION XIV.— plums-Continued. 



li !i il AliKS. 



Promises well for market. 



Vjilucft for drying and preserving. 



Tlic standard of quality among plums. Tree a slow grower. 



Tree very vigorous, upright, moderate bearer. 



Productive excellent, shoot.s dark, downy, vigorous. 



Introduced into Lenawee Co. by Israel Pennington, -who prizes it 



higlil y. 

 Tree vigorous, spreading, branches smooth. 



A slow grower, good bearer, very profitable at the north. 



Branches smooth. The stone is broad and flat. 



Tree vigorous, hardy, and prorluctive. The leading market variety. 



Tree not satisfactory at 8t. Joseph. 

 Nearly or quite equafto green gage. Hardy, vigorous, productive. 



Tree very vigorous and productive. 



Vigorous. Branches gray and very downy. 



Tree upright, vigorous. A moderate bearer. 



Productive, vigorous. Branches smooth, grayish. 



Tree vigorous; a great bearer; valuable for market. 



An old favorite. Hardy, productive. 



A rapid, upright grower; productive. 



The genuine has slender, smooth shoots. 



One of the most vigorous, shoots glossy, reddish purple, very product- 

 ive. 



One of tlie largest nnd most beautiful, but inclined to rot on the tree. 

 Free from rol :i t the north. 



A line market variety, but rots in some seasons at the south. 



SECTION XV.— QUINCES. 



AntSUEVIATIONS FOR THIS SECTION. 



Color. 



7/. yellow. 





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REMARKS. 



.\ longer keeiier than the Apple, but not equal in quality. Very unpro- 



M iictivi' ;iL Tr I vt-rsi! ( I'annelee). 

 Well known and universal ly api)roved. 



Tree a strong grower, but uniiroductive. Qnalitj^ suporror. 



Ljii-j:er th;in the .\pi)le, and equally good. Tree thrifty. 



