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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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g'ot a little g-limpse of his great bulky body 

 In fact, I was so highly entertained that I 

 almost forgot to be seasick. I really fared 

 better than seine of the bee-keepers who sat 

 close by. Perhaps they would prefer not 

 to have me mention their names in this con- 

 ne tion, for peculiar reasons of their own. 



Now, when 3'ou go to California do not 

 think of missing Catalina Island and the 

 glass-bottom boats. 



THE SLOE plum; MORE ABOUT IT, BY E. C. 

 GREEN, OF MEDINA, O. 



In Gleanings for Nov. 1 Mr Root gave a very inter- 

 esting account of this plum, which is, as he said, one 

 of our wild or native plums. As usual his estimate 

 was not tar out of the way, for this is what J. W. Kerr, 

 of Maryland, one of the leading authorities on the na- 

 tive plum, says of it : " The provident housewife finds 

 this type of fruit unsurpassed for culinary uses of the 

 plum. In any form that the Damson satisfies cookery 

 ambition, the" fruit of this group finds enduring favor. 

 N< ui sightly black knot to enfeeble the trees ; no un- 

 certainty about a crop. Twenty-five years of experi- 

 ence leads me to look with about as much certainty to 

 the annual production of a crop as to the coming and 



foing of the seaso' s : and the planter who omits them 

 rom his family orchard is not living up to his license." 

 The group which Mr. Kerr speaks of is known as 

 the Wayland. to which the variety known locally as 

 the sloe belongs This plum was brought to this 

 county some thirty years ago by Mr E Triffit. from 

 Illinois. Just how it got the name I do not know; but 

 there is another plum not nearly as good, that has a 

 prior claim to the name. 



I have seen the sloe in fruit for a number of years, 

 and have had it fruiting in my own orchard for the 

 past two years and there is no doubt that it is almost 

 identical with the dark-red variety of the Wayland 

 group which I have seen fruiting in the orchards of 

 the Ohio experiment station. The Wayland group of 

 plums is among the mo«t vigorous and productive of 

 our naive plums The fruit varies from a light yellow 

 to a dark red Nearly all the varieties are late in sea- 

 son. It may have been sold as the " Jspan plum," as 

 Mr Root said ; but the real Jaoan plum is a distinct 

 species of which a large number of varieties have 

 been introduced in the past thirty years But our na- 

 tive plum i> an exceedingly interesting fruit, which 

 varies greatly in growth and fruit So gre.Ht is their 

 varation that the\ have been successfully hybridized 

 with the peach on one hand and on the other with the 

 cherry. E. C. Green. 



It is true there may be some who think 

 our large cultivated varieties may be far 

 ahead of this smaller-sized though hand- 

 some plum; but when we consider that it is 

 absolutely proof (or at least it is here in 

 our locality) against curculio, rot, and 

 every thing else, so far as I know — is a 

 rank grower, bears every year — I think we 

 can afford to have a tree or two. It has, 

 too, a peculiar wild flavor that to me is 

 more enticing than any other plum in the 

 world. Very likely it is largely owing to 

 the fact that a wild plum-tree grew near my 

 boyhood home, producing plums very much 

 like the sloe plum. Every time I taste it, it 

 makes me feel like being a boy again. 



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