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and very uniform. Color a deep cherry red. It 

 has a tendency to crack open at the time of ripening 

 if the weather is very moist. 



Wild Goose. Believed to be the most popular of 

 its class, but its value is in the more southern lati- 

 tudes, being too tender for the north. Tree upright 

 changing to spreading as it attains age, quite 

 thorny, and an early and abundant bearer. Fruit 

 light red, size of Miner as grown in the south, but 

 in the north is quite small. Ripens very early 

 which gives it its greatest value, and is of very good 

 quality when fresh from the tree, but when over- 

 ripe is watery and insipid. 



Forest Rose. Closely resembles the Wild goose 

 but is more scarlet in color, later and of better qual- 

 ity, especially as a dessert fruit. 



Robinson. This according to Prof. Budd has 

 been known as the Bassett and as this variety is 

 frequently referred to as of merit, it is believed that 

 this name is still used by many. The true Bassett 

 plum is so poor, small and inferior in every way, as 

 to be of no value, and the correction should be 

 made for the reputation of this most excellent 

 plum, the Robinson. Like the others, however, it 

 it is not reliable very far north, but for this fault of 

 tenderness, it would lead all the Chicasas. In habit 

 it is almost a counterpart of the Pottawattamie, both 

 in tree, leaf and fruit. The principal difference 

 being in the color of the shoots, those of the latter 

 being more brown, while the former are brighter, 

 and have a pinkish cast. The fruit also ripens 



