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the South writes touching the plum as follows : ' The 

 finer classes of plums, such as Gages, etc., cannot be 

 grown except in poultry yards, and then only, if the trees 

 are carefully watched during the period when they set 

 fruit, and until the latter has attained at least half size. 

 Our improved varieties of the Chickasaw type are less lia- 

 ble to the attack of the curculio, and from this type we 

 reap full crops every year. Many new varieties have lately 

 been introduced, and we are confident, that before long, 

 we shall possess a race of plums that will comapare favor- 

 ably in quality with the Gages, but with the additional 

 merit of being better growers and less liable to the attack 

 of the curculio. The season of maturity ranges now from 

 the end of May until the beginning of September." 



With this knowledge from one of the best Southern 

 pomologists, we shall only add a few varieties to their 

 native seedlings. We will start our list with Cherry, 

 Chickasaw, Damson, De Caradenc, Frost Gage, Indian 

 Chief, Lombard, Mountain Plum, Miner, Newman Tem- 

 ple, and Wild Goose. 



THE QUINCE. 



The Quince is indigenous to Germany and the south of 

 Europe. It is a well known hardy fruit tree, and perhaps 

 pecuniarily one of the most profitable of all fruits. Botan- 

 ically it is called Cydonia vulgaris, this name said to have 

 come from the city of Cydon in Crete. Its fruit of fine 

 golden yellow when ripe, resembling that of the orange, 



