WILD GOOSE PLUM (Prunus hortulana, Bailey). A natural 

 hybrid between the wild red plum and the Chickasaw; sup- 

 posed to have originated in Kentucky, and now growing wild 

 from Maryland to Texas, as a straight, well-built, thornless 

 tree, with thin, oblong, dark green leaves, shining above, 

 pale beneath. The fruits often 1 inch in diameter, globose, 

 thick-skinned, juicy, a better fruit than either of its parents. 

 From this comparatively recent derivative of a cross between 

 two wild plums have been developed two important types of 

 garden plums: the northern Miner group, and the southern 

 Way land group. These are far better than the European 

 varieties, like the Damsons and Green Gages, in the South and 

 on the prairies. Failure attends the gardener who would 

 plant these Old World plums anywhere except in the North- 

 eastern States or on the Pacific Slope. 



