Three Neiv Plums. 



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THE FULTON PLUM. found growing in great profusion at Johns- 



town, Fulton county, N. Y. I have there- 

 fore named it the Fulton, as its origin 

 cannot be traced to the original grower. 

 It is doubtless an accidental seedling. 



The tree grows to an unusual size, and 

 produces its fruit in astonishing abundance 

 every season. It also, like most local 

 sorts, attains a more advanced age than 

 those of foreign introduction. 



The wood is red while in an immature 

 state ; which, however, becomes brown 

 with more perfect ripeness. The leaves 

 are much crumpled, resembling, some- 

 what, the Lombard. The growth is quite 

 erect and exceedingly rapid. 

 Fruit medium size, oval; suture very distinct; skin a bright yellow, 

 interspersed with rough brown spots of irregular form ; flesh yellotv, 

 juicy, high flavored, fine for the dessert ; stalk about three-quarters of 

 an inch in length, thick, and inserted in a moderately deep cavity ; 

 ripens in October, and frequently remains upon the tree to the 1st of 

 November. It will prove an invaluable sort on account of its extreme 

 lateness, aside from its other merits. 



THE QUACKENBOSS PLUM. Quackenboss, not a very euphonious 



name, to be sure ; but that is a matter 

 of secondary importance. It originated 

 at Albany, N. Y., which everybody 

 knows is celebrated for the perfection 

 with which its soil invests this fruit. 

 Quackenboss is the name of the in- 

 dividual who first presented it to public 

 notice. Whether this gentleman origi- 

 nated it, I am unable to state with 

 certainty. Unlike the plum just des- 

 I cribed, it is purple. A specimen tree 

 in my garden is so large as to resemble 

 at a distance a thrifty apple tree of a 

 dozen years' growth. It grows rapidly, 

 and forms a compact head of massive 

 foliage, much darker in color than any 



