STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 381 



FROM ONTARIO. 



Granton p. 0. Ont., April 26, 1887. 



S. D. Hillman, Secretary, etc.: 



I must apologize for being so tardy in sending my fees for member- 

 ship in your Society. 1 belong to a number, and from no other report 

 do I get so much valuable information. Enclosed please find the 

 amount of membership fee. 



Dear Friend, will I ever have the privilege of meeting you again 

 on this earth? if not, may our Lord Jesus guide, keep and save us, so 

 we shall meet again in his eternal world of blessedness and rest. 



Yours truly, 



John" Little. 



FROM NEBRASKA. 



Table Rock, Neb., June 15, 1887. 

 S. D. Hillman, Secretary, etc.. 



Permit me to acknowledge the receipt of one dozen copies of your 

 State Horticultural Report for 1887, and to thank you for the same. 

 Will reciprocate as soon as our new volume is out, which will not be 

 completed until late in July or first of August. 



Crop prospects are good; fruit not to exceed one-half crop except 

 blackberries, which promise a large crop. 



Yours fraternally, 



S. B. Barnard, 

 Sec. Nebraska Hort. Society. 



Following is Ihe paper contributed by Hon. D. B. Wier on Native 

 Plums : 



NATIVE PLUMS AND HOW TO FRUIT THEM. 



By D. B. Wier, Lacon, III. 



The Native plums are the indigenous, or wild pluuis, of this conti- 

 nent and their direct descendants from seed. These plums all belong 

 to the geuns Primus of the sub-order Amy g dalea, (the Almond fam- 

 ily) of the order Rosacea, to which nearly all our cultivated fruits be- 

 long. To the genus Prunus belong nearly all the stone fruits in cul- 



