PLUMS. %lS 



appears to be a native of this country. There is the co*n- 

 mon cherry plum, or MyrohoJan^ of Europe, which is 

 ratlier larger, and shaped like a heart. In all else the 

 same. There is also the- Golden. 



Cherry Plum. A seedling from the Cherry Plum, 

 which is worthy as a market plum in Philadelphia. 



Chickasaw Plum (Prunus Chicasa, Michaux). 



Eemarks. — Fruit about three-quarters of an inch in 

 diameter, round, and red or yellowish red, of a pleasant sub- 

 acid flavor ; rijDens pretty early ; skin thin. The branches 

 are thorny, the head rather bushy, with narrow lanceo- 

 late, serrulate leaves, looking a little distance off some- 

 what like those of a peach tree. It usually grows about 

 twelve or fourteen feet high, but on the prairies of Arkan- 

 sas it is only three or four feet high, and in this form it 

 is also common in Texas. The dwarf Texas plum de- 

 scribed by Kenrick is only this species. It is quite 

 ornamental. 'y 



COE'S GOLDEN DEOP. Wood, smooth ; color, light 

 yellow, dotted next sun ; form, oval ; size, 1 ; stone, ad- 

 heres ; quality, 1; use, table; flavor, rich and sweet; 

 rather coarse-grained ; season, August. 



Eemarks. — 'An English vari.ety. Tree only moderately 

 productive. Sometimes confounded with Yellow Effir, 

 which is a little larger. It is one of the most delicious 

 of all plums. It is nearly as large as the Washington. 

 It can compare with the Green Gage (the richest-flavored 

 of all plums, as the Seckel is of pears, and the American 

 Golden Eusset of apples) in point of lusciousness, and as 

 it comes in after both these are gone, it may be ranked as 

 one of the best kinds yet produced, and ought to have a 

 place in the ver}' smallest collection. Hovev cotisidors it 



