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make a particular effort to procure with others 

 some of the red-fleshed plums. 



Mr. Bunting complied with my request, but, 

 greatly to my disappointment, the first lot of 

 young trees he shipped to me arrived (Nov. 5, 

 1884) in such condition that I despaired of 

 doing anything with them, and I immediately 

 sent a request for another shipment, and gave 

 definite instructions as to packing. 



A little over a year later, on Dec. 20, 1885, 

 there arrived the twelve seedlings to which I 

 have already referred. And this time, to my 

 great satisfaction, the tiny trees were found in 

 good condition. 



A few days after these seedlings were received, 

 the Gold Ridge Farm at Sebastopol was pur- 

 chased, eight miles from my Santa Rosa place, 

 and here, as soon as they were large enough, 

 cions from these twelve little strangers were 

 grafted on to older trees and thus brought early 

 to maturity. 



One of them bore fruit the following summer 

 and the others in the course of one or two suc- 

 ceeding seasons. 



And so well had the little immigrants re- 

 sponded to the stimulus of new suroundings 

 that each one of them revealed, I make no doubt, 

 the very fullest possibilities of its heritage. More 



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