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enough) it has borne abundant crops. The variety 

 was neglected, and never brought to the notice of 

 the public till 1879, when Dr. J. H. Robinson (of 

 the same township) read a paper on Chickasaw plums 

 before the Indiana Horticultural Society, and gave a 

 very flattering description of this plum. He had 

 been watching it since 1872, and had had two good 

 crops on his own trees, which bore two bushels to the 

 tree five years after planting. It was named by the 

 Putnam County Horticultural Society in honor of Dr. 

 Robinson. Albertsou & Hobbs, nurserymen, of Bridge- 

 port, Indiana, introduced the variety in the fall of 

 1884 and spring of 1885. 



Since 1860, many plums of the type of these three 

 have come into notice in the region south of the Ohio 

 and east of Kansas. Some of the leading varieties 

 are Wayland, which came up in a plum thicket in 

 the garden of Professor H. B. Wayland, Cadiz, Ken- 

 tucky, and which was introduced to the public by 

 Downer & Bro., Fairview, Kentucky, about 1876; 

 Missouri Apricot (or Honey Drop), a plum found 

 wild in Missouri and introduced by Stark Bros., 

 nurserymen, of Louisiana, Missouri, in 1886 ; More- 

 man, a Kentucky plum, introduced by W. F. Heikes 

 in 1881 ; Golden Beauty, found wild in Texas, and 

 introduced by George Onderdouk in 1874 ; Potta- 

 wattamie, found in Tennessee, but taken west and 

 first prominently introduced by J. B. Rice, Council 

 Bluffs, Iowa, in 1875; Newman (Fig. 23), found in 

 Kentucky, and introduced by W. F. Heikes. 



While these events were transpiring in the South, 

 another type of native plums was coining into promi- 

 nence in the upper Mississippi valley. In this region 



