SAND PLUM 



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an ornamental plant of first-rate value, and as selec- 

 tion and good cultivation will doubtless improve the 

 size and quality of the fruit, it will, perhaps, become 

 a valuable inmate of small fruit -gardens." This sand 



Fig. 35. Sand plum. Natural size. 



plum is very like the Chickasaw plum in botanical 

 characters, and I think that it is only a modified form 

 of that species, the variation having been brought 

 about by the dry soils and climates in which it grows. 

 It differs from the Chickasaw in its dwarfer habit, 

 thicker leaves and thicker- skinned fruit, and some- 



