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Plums and Plum Culture 



Monarch, Golden Drop, Bavay, Burbank, Abundance, Red 

 June and Wickson. 



Wisconsin, Minnesota, Manitoba, Montana, the Da- 

 kotas, Iowa and Northern Nebraska and Colorado. — This 

 section is almost exclusn e in its adoption of the 

 Americanas. Nearly all the varieties of this group 

 succeed in this section. Miner does well with some 

 growers, but practically all the plums grown for mar- 

 ket, — and the quantity is large, — are of the Ameri- 

 canas native to that soil. 



Canvassing the votes recently taken of the leading 

 plum specialists of this region, we have the following 

 result, the number set opposite each variety being the 

 number of times it was mentioned out of twenty votes: 



De Soto 13 Stoddard 5 



Wyant 12 Rollingstone 4 



Wolf 10 Surprise 4 



Hawkeye 9 Aitken 3 



Forest Garden 8 Cheney 3 



Miner 6 Hunt 3 



This list may be looked on as the best possible 

 general recommendation of market plums for the 

 northwest. 



In southern Iowa and Nebraska, Wildgoose and 

 Pottawattamie are very generally recommended as 

 market plums. 



Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and 

 Colorado. — This area varies considerably in soils, and 

 there is no well-defined area of plum culture. 

 Opinions regarding varieties for market are therefore 

 much diversified. A few may be quoted. 



Professor J. Troop, Indiana Experiment station, names 

 Wildgoose, Wolf, Damson, Shipper, Bradshaw, Lombard, 

 Burbank. 



L. A. Goodman, Westport, Mo., secretary of the Missouri 

 Horticultural society, recommends Wildgoose, Weaver, 

 Abundance, Burbank, Damson, Lombard. 



