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ginated in New- York, and has weighed over four 

 ounces. Flesh yellow, firm, sweet, and delicious. 



Magnum Bomtm, Egg Plum. — Of great size, oval, 

 pale yellow. Excellent for preserves. Ripe in Sep- 

 tember. 



Wine Sour, Rotherham. — An old variety, but excel- 

 lent for sweetmeats; of medium size, dark purple 

 colour, flesh yellow, juicy, and pleasantly acid. 

 Flourishes best on a porous limestone or gravelly 

 soil. 



Coe's Golden Drop. — This is a fine fruit and a good 

 bearer. Colour yellow, with spots of violet and 

 crimson. Flesh gold colour, rich and superior. 

 This is a capital fruit, and worthy of a place in ev- 

 ery fruit-garden. It ripens in September, and keeps 

 several weeks. 



To the above list may be added, as deserving of 

 cultivation, Bleecker's Plum, Cooper's large lied, 

 Purple Gage, Flushing Gage, Red Magnum Bonum, 

 Morocco, or early Black Damask, New- York Pur- 

 ple, and nnany others to be found in our principal 

 nurseries and fruit-gardens. 



There are thousands of plum-trees about the coun- 

 try that have been partially or wholly destroyed 

 within a few years by the blight ; and from its rapid 

 spread when left to take its course, it would seem 

 to be the most formidable enemy to the plum-tree 

 that exists. It makes its appearance usually on the 

 branches, by a cracking of the bark and a protrusion 

 jf a fungus-looking mass, that hardens, turns black, 

 gives the branch a twisted or contorted form, and 

 destroys it by penetrating the whole of the wood, 

 and thus arresting the circulation. In some of the 

 finest plum-growing districts of this state, where no 

 efforts have been made to check the disease, the 

 trees are nearly destroyed, and the culture of the 

 fruit in a great measure suspended. The disease is 

 supposed to be the result of an insect which depos- 

 ites its oggs in the wood, and its action produces the 



