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The Wayland Group 



T the beginning of critical plum 

 study in this country, that is to 

 say, in the publication of Pro- 

 fessor Bailey's bulletin 38, in 

 1892, these plums were in- 

 cluded indiscriminately with 

 the Wildgoose plums in the so- 

 called species Primus hortulcma. 

 Mr. T. V. Munson seems to 

 have been the first to call attention to their separate- 

 ness. In his trade catalogue of 1896, I think 

 it was, he advertised the varieties Wayland 

 and Golden Beauty, referring them to Scheele's Primus 

 rivularis. Mr. Munson's view, that these plums be- 

 longed to a group somewhat apart from Wildgoose, 

 Downing, etc., accorded entirely with the opinion just 

 then forming in my own mind. In the summer of 

 1897 I gave the whole series diligent study in the field, 

 becoming fully confirmed in this view. 



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