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late years our collections have been very much enriched by Mr. 

 Rivers and others. The following list includes the best dessert plums. 



Earliest Varieties. Early Favourite, Early Prolific, Early Green 

 Gage, Early Mirabelle, Cullen's Golden Gage, M'Laughlin's Gage, 

 Imperial Ottoman, Early Orleans, Royale de Tours, Precoce de Tours, 

 Royale Hative. 



Second Season Dessert Plums. Woolston's Black Gage, Coe's Golden 

 Drop, Angelina Burdett, Jefferson, Prince Englebert, Transparent 

 Gage, Denniston's Superb, Royale Hative, Green Gage, Reine Claude 

 Bodaert, Huling's Superb, Bleeker's Yellow Gage. 



Latest Dessert Plums. Reine Claude de Bavay, Ickworth Im- 

 peratrice, Reine Claude d'Octobre, St. Martin's Qnetsche, Belvoir 

 Plum, Autumn Gage, Coe's Fine Late Red, Coe's Golden Drop, 

 Fulton, Guthrie's Late Green, Nouvelle de Dorelle, Late Black 

 Orleans. 



Most of these varieties especially the Golden Drop, Jefferson, and 

 the Green Gage are likewise the very best for preserving and culinary 

 purposes. 



A selection of plums for walls of different aspects, espaliers and 

 dwarfs, and for an orchard, have been before given. 



Kitchen Select Plums. 



Earliest. Early Orleans, Early Favourite, Early Prolific, Goliath, 

 Nectarine, Mirabelle, Royale de Tours, Dove Bank, Prince Englebert, 

 Main Crop, Victoria, Washington, White Magnum Bonum, Pond's 

 Seedling, Prune Damson, Diamond, Cox's Emperor, Orleans, Autumn 

 Compote, Fellemberg, Mitchelson's, Standard of England. 



Latest Varieties. Downton Impe"ratrice, Winesour, New Large Bui- 

 lace, White Damson, Iniperiale de Milan, Coe's Golden Drop. 



Dessert and Kitchen Plums for a Garden of Limited Extent. 

 Royale Hative, Jefferson, Victoria, Diamond, Drap d'Or, Green Gage, 

 Kirke's, Washington, Reine Claude Violette, Coe's Golden Drop, 

 Coe's Fine Late Red, Early Orleans, Shropshire Damson, and White 

 Magnum Bonum. 



A Selection of Dessert Plums for a very Small Garden. Royale 

 Hative, Green Gage, Purple Gage, Coe's Golden Drop, and Orleans. 



Dessert and Kitchen Plums for a Cottage Garden. Royale Hative, 

 Green Gage, Coe's Golden Drop, and Reine Claude Violette ; and for 

 the kitchen, the Shropshire Diimson, Victoria, Pond's Seedling, Wine- 

 sour, and White Magnum Bonum. 



Propagation, Nursery Culture, and Choice of Plants. The plum, 

 like other stone fruit, is mostly propagated by budding, and the stocks, 

 when the object is large and permanent trees, are the Mussel, St. 

 Julian, Magnum Bonum, or any free-growing plum, either raised from 

 seed, or, as is more commonly done, from layers or suckers. The 

 dwarfing stock for the plum is the Myrobalan, or Mirabelle of the 

 French. The common baking-plums, such as the damson, bullace, 

 &c., are generally propagated by suckers, without being either budded 

 or grafted. The Mussel and St. Julian plums are extensively propa- 



