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Twice last season I visited the plum orchard of these gentlemen. I certainly 

 saw nothing in Western New York so beautiful, nor have I tasted anything So good 

 as their plums. They have all the best kinds, both old and new, two, three, or more 

 trees of each. These are trained as dwarfs and planted quite close together. The 

 use of the canvas in such an orchard is much more difficult than where trees are 

 planted in the ordinary way ; still it is used successfully, for every year they have 

 plums. The Curculio is probably as common here as in other places. In a careful 

 examination of the pears and apples on their grounds, the unmistakable mark was as 

 often met with as in other fruit establishments in Western New York. Charles 

 Downing resorts to similar means of saving his plums. 



I know a gentleman in New Jersey who not only has the taste for fruit-growing, 

 but the energy necessary for conquering the enemies of fruits. You see in his 

 grounds, in the most perfect order, pears, apples, grapes, cherries, and all the smaller 

 fruits ; but he takes no special interest in pointing them out to visitors. They are 

 common others have them ; but when you go with him among plum, apricot, and 

 nectarine trees loaded with fruit, you see his consciousness of triumph, and oh, how 

 beautiful they are ! Why will not every one who has retired to the country for 

 enjoyment have such enjoyment as this, by conquering these enemies, and making 

 for himself a primeval Eden, with all the modern improvements ? Mother Eve 

 managed the fruit business badly in her day, and gave Adam, and all the rest of us, 

 a great deal of trouble ; but if we face that trouble resolutely we shall find a recom- 

 pense. 



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LISTS OF PLUMS TO CHOOSE FROM. 

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From Charles Downing. 



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Bradshaw, Bleecker's Gage, 



Coe's Golden Drop, Green Gage, 



Denniston's Superb, Imperial Gage, 



Jefferson, Lawrence's Favorite, 



Lombard, McLaughlin, 



Prune d'Agen, Purple Favorite, 



Royal Hative, Reine Claude de Bevay, 



Imperial Ottoman, Jaune Hative, 



