Climax plum. 



CHAPTER XXXII 

 THE' CLIMAX PLUM 



A good many years ago there came to the plant school 

 two queer pupils. One, little Simoni, was a plum pupil 

 from China; and the other, little Triflora, was a prune 

 pupil from Japan. They were quite lonely at first, and 

 felt strange, for everything was so different from anything 

 they had ever been near before. 



Simoni was a very funny little fellow, and produced 



fruit that, though spoken of as a plum, was shaped more 



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