Descriptions of Select Varieties of Phims. 149 



placed his collection in Wisconsin, a mistake which we now 

 most cheerfully correct. Mr. Weed deserves well of the cul- 

 tivators of his adopted state, who are making plantations of 

 fruit trees, for his exertions in the introduction of most of the 

 really fine varieties of fruit. — Ed. 



Art. II. Descriptions and Engravings of Select Varieties 

 of Plums. By the Editor. 



In our last volume, (XIII. p. 529,) we commenced a series 

 of articles descriptive of all the choicest varieties of plums, in 

 the same style in which our descriptions of pears have been 

 given. Four new and superior kinds were then figured, and 

 we now have the pleasure of adding four more to the num- 

 ber. Our object will be, as with the pear, not only to de- 

 scribe and figure the several kinds, but to add all the syn- 

 onymes under which they are known, in order that the 

 existing confusion in the nomenclature of the plum may be 

 cleared up. 



5. Washington. Pomological Magazine, Vol. I. pi. 16. 



Bolmar's Washington. Guide to the Orchard. 



I3olmar, -i 



New Washington, \ Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 3d. Ed. 



Franklin, 3 



Superior Green Gage, i 



Superior Gage, \ ^^ ^"""^ American collections. 



The Washington plum {fig. 14,) deservedly holds the high- 

 est rank among the numerous varieties which have been yet 

 produced : nearly equalling the Green Gage in flavor, and far 

 surpassing it in size and beauty, it has, to a considerable ex- 

 tent, taken the place of that old and excellent plum. The 

 tree is also of vigorous habit, with a broad and ample foliage, 

 quite unlike any of the kinds previously known. 



The history of the Washington is very well known, though 

 its origin is involved in some obscurity. Mr. Floy, in his 

 edition of Lindley's Guide to the Orchard, states that it sprang 

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