22 THE PLUM IN KANSAS. 



keeping and shipping qualities of this plum will, it is thought, be 

 strengthened. The experiment station has now in operation extensive 

 experiments along these lines. During the past season a large col- 

 lection of data and of pits for planting has been made from the Sand- 

 plum districts of the state. 



NOTES ON SEVERAL VARIETIES. 



The American Pomological Society, which is now half a century- 

 old, may safely be counted the best authority in this country on 

 fruits and fruit-raising, and we aj^pend here a list of plums recom- 

 mended by it, in its report for 1899, for the district comprising that 

 part of Kansas below 2000 feet elevation : 



Prunus americana : As reliable — De Soto, Forest Garden, Hawk- 

 eye, Ocheeda, Quaker, Rockford, and Rolling Stone. Extra, or double 

 starred — Weaver, Wolf, and Wyant. Promising — Gaylord, New Ulm, 

 Piper, and Stoddard. 



P. angustifolia: Yellow Transparent. Double starred — Caddo 

 Chief and Pottawatomie. Promising — Newman. 



P. cerasifera : Marianna and its hybrids. 



P. domestica : Albert ( yellow), Bavay ( Bavay Green Gage, Reine 

 Claude de Bavay), Hudson River, Purple Egg, Huling's Superb, Im- 

 perial Gage, Italian Prune (Fellenberg), Smith Orleams, Wangen- 

 heim, Washington, and Yellow Egg. Double starred — Damson, 

 Lombard, and Shropshire Damson. 



P . liortulana : Miner group (double starred) — Miner. Wayland 

 group — Cumberland and Golden Beauty. Wild Goose group — 

 Downing (Charles) and Wild Goose, (both double starred). 



P. triflora (Japan): Ogon, Red June, Red Negate, Satsuma, and 

 Willard. Double starred — Abundance and Burbank. 



At the twenty-sixth biennial meeting of the American Pomological 

 Society, at Philadelphia, in September, 1899, a Wilder silver medal 

 was given to C. L. Watrous, of Des Moines, Iowa, for a collective ex- 

 hibit of the following new plums : Brittlewood, Bursota, New Ulm, 

 and Silver. 



THE RED-LEAVED PLUM. 



Our first plaot of this was set upwards of twenty years ago, as we now re- 

 member; at any rate it was just after its announcement in this country. The 

 stock and scion were not congenial. The top grew luxuriantly enough, however 

 for ten years or so, but the stock ceased to grow, so that the plant was strangled, 

 so to say. Two years ago last fall we planted another Pissard plum. The tree 

 is at present but eight feet high, yet it has borne freely. The plums are a full 

 inch in diameter, either way, being round, and of a reddish-purple color. The 



