NOTES ON THIRTY-TWO VARIETIES OF PLUMS. 



and Ida Gage. To produce its fruit in perfection, (north, of New-York,) it requires a 

 warm, deep soil, with a southern inclination; and on a wall, with the latter mentioned 

 exposure, it can be grown to twice its usual size and beauty. 



9. Prince's Imperial Gage. — A well known and extensively cultivated variety, on 

 which the grower can calculate to a certainty the number of bushels of fruit he can annu- 

 ally carry to market. This fact, connected with its other good qualities, will keep it in 

 cultivation when other higher flavored sorts are comparatively abandoned. 



10. Huling's Sapcrb. — This mammoth fruit does not seem to have attracted that uni- 

 versal notice to which it is entitled in so eminent a degree. It is a decided anomaly in this 

 class of fruits, carrying out its gigantic proportions in wood, foliage, and fruit. It is to- 

 lerably hardy, a good or ordinary bearer, fruit of the largest size, &c. — superior flavor. 



11. Blue Imperatrice. — A very late plum — decidedly superior to Coe's Late Red in this 

 latitude. 



12. Jefferson. — An excellent plum in all respects; a little tender here, and very difficult 

 of propagation to any extent. 



13. Lawrence's Favorite. — Has proved itself highly deserving of the numberless eulo- 

 giums so unsparingly bestowed upon it by those who have partaken of its highly delicious 

 fruit. The tree is a strong grower, quite hardy, difiering very materially in this respect 

 from the Jefferson. 



14. Purple Magnum Bonum. — A very ordinary plum, frequently reproducing itself 

 from seed, with scarcely any perceptible difference of habit or fruit. One of these seed- 

 lings is " Duane Purple," which does not differ materially from a half dozen other seed- 

 lings cultivated here, under the name of Red Magnum Bonum. 



15. Yelloto Magnum Bonum, (or Egg Plum,) is quite a favorite here, being very hardy, 

 productive, late, and consequently a very profitable plum for market. 



16. Marten's Seedling. — A new yellow plum, which originated in the garden of the 

 gentleman whose name it bears, residing in this city; it has fruited with me this last sum- 

 mer, and proves to be a plum of the finest quality, superior to the majority of highly 

 lauded foreign varieties. 



17. 3Iediterranean. — Another new seedling from the interior of this state, nearly as 

 large as the Peach plum; superior to it in point of flavor, and some six days earlier. It 

 forms a beautiful, thrifty growing tree, perfectly hardy. Ripens the latter part of July 

 and first of August. 



18. Washington. — A magnificent showy plum, of very good flavor; hardy and produc- 

 tive; a general favorite. 



19. Early Roijal. — Rather tender; a slow grower; very productive; an excellent, high 

 flavored fruit; ripens the latter jjart of July. 



Lucomb's Nonsuch. — Quite mediocre. 



20. Autumn Gage. — A prodigious bearer; quite late, and nearly first rate. 



21. Cloth of Gold. — Early; but too dry and small to commend it to favorable notice. 



22. Red Diaper, (or Mimms) — Grows very much like the Green Gage; the wood of 

 the new growth is occasionally destroyed by severe winters. It is a red plum, as its name 

 indicates, exceedingly delicious and melting. 



23. Emerald Drop. — An abundant bearer; makes a fine tree; well worthy of cultivation. 



24. Imperial Ottoman. — This is a beautiful plum; ripens first of August; flavor occasion- 

 ally first rate; almost too tender for this latitude 



i>/orocco.— Fruit second rate; a shy bearer; quite early and hardy. Ripens 

 ust. 



