250 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
THE GAYLORD PLUM. 
I saw the Gaylord plum in bearing on the fruit farm of O. M. Lord at 
Minnesota City. last season. It was the second or third season that it 
had fruited in thisstate. The trees are vigorous growers of a spreading, ir- 
regular habit. They were loaded with fruit to their fullest capacity and 
some branches were breaking down under the weight of the fruit. The 
fruit is of a large size, many specimens measuring one and one-half inches 
in diameter. They are smooth, round, oval in form; when ripe the color 
is yellow, more or less blotched with carmine red, flesh golden yellow, 
rich, juicy and pleasant flavor; skin rather thick, but not acrid; belongs 
to the cling-stone class; origin, Floyd Co., lowa: ripe last year from 
August 25 to September 5. 
At the state fair there were in the Brown County exhibit three varie- 
ties shown as Penning’s Seedlings. No.1 was a large, round plum one 
and three-eighth inches in diameter; color, dark purplish red, deeply 
specked with small, gray dots; flesh greenish yellow; flavor sprightly good; 
shows a distinct suture on one side; is a cling-stone. 
No. 2, large, oval, polar red, specked with gray dots; flesh green, good 
consistency; flavor good; stone rather large and nearly free. 
No. 3, large, one and one-fourth inches in diameter; form nearly round; 
color yellow and red; fiesh greenish orange, juicy, pleasant acid; stone 
rather large,thick and round; a cling-stone. Should judge that the condi- 
tions under which they had been grown had not been entirely favorable. 
In the Anoka County exhibit, E. S. Rogers showed two plates of plitms that 
were said to be seedlings of a California variety. The fruit was large, 
round oval in form and of dark red color, flesh thick meated, rich plum 
flavor, stone rather large, flat and nearly free. Wm. Staples, of the same 
county, showed a variety, medium to large in size, round, color yellow, 
‘shading to bright red, flesh meaty, flavor good. On the second day of the 
fair, Miss M. H. Morrison, of Rosemont, placed on exhibition about one 
half peck of Morrison’s Peach plums. It is a large, round, dark red plum 
with orange colored, very meaty flesh, of Sweet, peachy flavor. It is nearly 
free-stone and when fully ripe the skin is easily pealed from the flesh. It 
is said to be superior for cooking and canning. 
The Ocheeda plum from Nobles County, was also shown at the state ~ 
fair and entered in competition for the best single variety of cultivated 
native plums, and was awarded the first premium, as being the best on 
exhibition. The fruit is larger than the Desota, and of excellent qual- 
ity. Trees thrifty and abundant bearers. 
Besides the above there were sent me by mail and express samples for 
examination from various places in Minnesota and South Dakota. Many 
of them were very fine, but none of them apparently superior to those al- 
ready mentioned, and as my paper is growing too lengthy to be interest- 
ing, I will defer making notes on them until some future time. However, 
I will improve this opportunity to express my thanks and acknowledge 
my obligations to C. G. Patten, of Charles City, lowa, Joseph Anderson, 
Renville, Minn., Dewain Cook and S. O. Taggert, of Cottonwood County, 
H. J. Sutlow, of Nobles County,and many others for the aid they have 
rendered me, and to W. A. Reed, of Fergus Falls, for samples of eight 
varieties originated from seed of the Chickasaw plum. 
