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Sharpless (Per.). Good runner, small berries, light colored, 

 fairly productive. 



Sheppard (Imp.). Small to medium, not profitable. 



Saunders (Per.). ^ledium size, not productive. 



Sunshine (Imp.). \'ery late, light color, poor quality, irregular, 

 productive. 



T. de Gand (Per.). Poor grower, not productive. 



Twilight ( Per. ) . A good fertilizer, dark red berry, good flavor. 

 medium size, very productive, promising. 



\\'arfield ( Imp. ) . The best berry for canning, dark color, good 

 qualitv, medium size, heavy bearer and makes a good mate for the 

 Sen. Dunlap. for shipping and home market. 



Wm. Belt (Per.). Good grower, irregular, fairly productive. 



\V. J. Bryan (Per.). Dark color, fair size, fair quaUty, quite 

 productive. 



^^'oolverton (Per.). A fine grower, not profitable. 



THE MANKATO PLUM. 



I have just read the article on the ]\Iankato plum in June Horti- 

 culturist. I boarded with Peter Schmaltz (not Schmatz, as spelled 

 by Mr. Buck) three months in the winter and early spring of 1873 

 or 4 and was w^ell acquainted with both Mrs. Dentinger and Eider. 

 The origin of the Mankato plum as told me by ]\Ir. Schmaltz is this : 

 One of their neighbors in Bufltalo, X. Y.. brought some trees of the 

 German prune from Gemiany and planted them in his garden, and 

 Mr. Dentinger brought some of the pits from these trees, and they 

 were planted on the farm of Mr. Eider. Mr. Dentinger lived with 

 his son-in-law, ^Mr. Eider. Mr. Schmaltz said they planted a long 

 pit out of a blue plum, and the result was a red plum with a flat 

 round pit. The last time I was at the Eider farm there were three 

 trees standing, and they bore three diflFerent kinds of plums.^ We 

 have an early plum that we introduced as the ]\Iankato. and the 

 sprout we sent to ]\Ir. Goff was a late plum, and the third tree never 

 has been propagated from as far as I know. — S. D. Richardson. Win- 

 nebasfo Citv. 



The Wilder Medal for New Fruits —The American Promulogical 

 Society, which holds its next regular session in Boston September 10 to 12, 

 has adopted a plan for examining new fruits ad interim, that is. -when they 

 are at their best. This enlarges the field and gives an opportunity for compe- 

 tition of varieties of fruits that mature at a time other than when the meeting 

 is in session. Any of our readers who have new and valuable varieties of fruit 

 who desire to enter into this com-^etition may do so without expense except 

 that incurred in connection with sending the fruits to the committees for ex- | 

 amination. Any such should address Sec'y Wm. A. Taylor, 552 Q St. N. E., 

 "Washington, D. C. This offer is open to all fruit growers in North America. 



