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pointed, the margins finely and evenly serrate, and the stalks usually bearing two to 

 four small glands. Early. Quality poor, but on account of its productiveness, earli- 

 ness, beauty, good shipping qualities, and its early introduction, it is the most popular 



Fio. 3.— Wild Goose. Sprays half size. Stones full size- 



of the native plums. The Wild Goose was first brought to notice by Jamks Harvey of 

 Columbia, Tenn. Some time before 1850 a man shot a wild goose near Columbia, and 

 on the spot where the carcass was thrown this plum came up the following spring.^ It 



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