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Fellenburg Prune is of the highest quality and very 

 prolific of large sized plums for prune and plum 

 are really one. 



Almost everyone who knows anything about plums 

 at all has become more or less acquainted with the 

 creations of Mr. Burbank. These are hybrids of 

 our native sorts with the Japanese. The best of 

 these hybrids are Shiro, Red June, Climax, Maynard, 

 Sultan and Gold. I have all of these growing to 

 perfection, with the exception of Sultan, which does 

 not prove quite hardy in New York. America is in 

 some ways still better than any of these, and very 

 early, only, if not severely thinned, the quality of the 

 plum is positively poor. Abundance and Burbank 

 are two importations, both of them quite early and 

 of about equal value. They should both be picked 

 from the tree as they begin to color and allowed to 

 ripen in the store room. 



I do not wonder that the Japanese worship the 

 cherry. Spring would hardly be spring without the 

 bursting open of the delicate white flowers in the 

 cherry garden. You can divide them into two 

 classes, the sweet and the sour. The sour cherries 

 are very much alike, only some of them are a little 

 larger and more meaty. The best of all is perhaps 

 Montmorency, or possibly Baldwin, or Suda Hardy. 

 These three you might easily find room for. 



Of the sweet cherries Gov. Wood, Windsor, 

 Napoleon, and Dikeman are enough for a small home. 

 Black Tartarian, however, is a magnificent affair if 



