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nated in La Crosse Co., Wis. It stood well for over thirty years, and 
was knownas a heavy fruiter andlong keeper. The tree was growing 
on a Clay bank in a back yard, and at that time was undermined and 
taken out. I secured two scions from it and worked them on the top 
of a Gen’l. Grant crab; they stand and bear liberally, and the fruitis 
fair in quality but rather small. C.G. Patten, of Iowa, sent us a 
sample of an Oldenburg seedling that is good enough to be worth 
looking after. Itis of rather better quality than the Duchess, and 
keeps a month later. Joseph Marshall, of Washington, Fillmore Co., 
has a new seedling. The fruit is about the size of and as beautiful as 
the Jonathan; season, October and later. He writes that the apple 
appears to be perfectly hardy. 
NATIVE PLUMS. 
A number of packages of native plums were sent us by mail for 
examination. The first was received on August eighth, from 
August Wittmann, St. Paul. They measured one and one-fourth 
inches in diameter and one and three-fourths inchesin length. The 
color is a deep red, covered with a whitish bloom; the skin is rather 
thick; flesh medium soft; flavor very good. It will keep several 
days after being picked, and is so early and handsome that I should 
think it would be valuable for market. Onthe eighteenth of August, 
Mr. Wittmann sent us another variety, a round plum, one and three- 
eighths inchesin diameter, of better quality than the first. Four days 
later we received another variety, large,and oval, yellow withred 
cheeks; flesh yellow and sweet. We understand they are seedlings, 
and all of them are better than the wild plum of the groves; we are 
informed that, owing to the drouth, they are not as large as they 
usually grow. 
On August twenty-third, we received samples fromW. C. Northrup, 
Red Wing, Minn. Average size, thirteen-sixteenths in. in diameter, 
one and seven-sixteenths in. inlength; form,oval; color,yellow, shad- 
ing to light red and deeper red on same specimen; skin, thick; flesh, 
orange-golden; flavor, pleasant; stone rather large, medium thick; 
cling. 
On August eleventh, five varieties were received from Thomas 
Frankland, Manitoba. In size they ran from medium to small. Two 
of them were of excellent quality and nearly freestone and might 
prove valuable to us onaccount of earliness. They would very likely 
grow larger with us. A sample of the Cheney was sent with them to 
show their comparative earliness, and, I should judge, they were 
from two to three weeks earlier than that. 
At Mr. Widmoyer’s, Dresbach, we saw a seedling plum that seemed 
to possess considerable merit. It isa medium large, round plum; 
color, yellow shading to salmon and red; skin, thin, separating easily 
from the flesh when fully ripe; flesh, yellow. A very good plum. 
Piper’s Peach was examined August twenty-third. Itisa large, 
round, red plum, which is covered with a thick, bluish bloom. The 
flesh is a deep orange-yellow, of good consistence and of very fine 
flavor; the stone is round and thick. The tree fruits rather shyly this 
year. Ifit proves to be a good bearer,it is one of our very best 
plums. Itisa healthy, strong grower. 
