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very late. This leaves out Clapp's Favorite, which 

 should be added if you will only make sure to pick 

 it early. Those families who can plant only four or 

 five trees should take Clapp's Favorite and Bartlett 

 grafted together, Sheldon, Seckel, Anjou and Law- 

 rence grafted together, and Patrick Barry. Reduce 

 this to three trees and you might take Bartlett, Shel- 

 don, and Anjou. 



I believe in the plum as a wonderful fruit, most 

 delicious and most wholesome. It is great for cook- 

 ing, for canning, and for eating out of hand. Of 

 the old fashioned or European sorts we must have 

 Green Gage, Peter's Yellow Gage, Coe's Golden 

 Drop, Diamond, Shropshire Damson, Fellenburg 

 Prune, and for show as well as for quality the Pond. 



There are two preeminent varieties that I shall not 

 advise you to plant, simply because they are so given 

 to black knot and suckering I refer to Bleecker 

 or Lombard and Magnum Bonum. Both of these 

 are hopelessly subject to disease, but as we can easily 

 have them on their own roots, one may cut down a 

 diseased tree and renew it. 



If you have but one plum take the Green Gage, 

 which is the very essence of delicious flavor, also 

 making a capital preserve. Shropshire Damson can 

 be secured on its own roots and is the ideal plum for 

 cooking. Monarch is a new sort of superb quality, 

 ripening in October, and very late comes Grand 

 Duke, one of the first of all plums frequently 

 hanging in excellent condition into the first snow. 



