Improvement of the Native Plum. 



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pie bloom ; translucent, with numerous white specks or dots all over it ; 

 sweet throughout; almost pulpless. The stone is flattish, of medium size. 

 In an orchard in which there are twenty varieties of the foreign plum, it 

 has produced a crop every year since the trees were two years planted out, 

 now eleven years ; and while the curculio has destroyed all of the fruit on 

 the foreign varieties, and most of that on the Chickasaw and some other 

 native varieties, I have never yet seen the crescent-cut in the skin, nor a 



worm in the fruit. It is very prolific. If the fruit be gathered just as it 

 begins to change color, it will keep two weeks ; but, if picked too green, it 

 loses some of its flavor, 



I have also a yellow variety, that in growth of tree and leaf, and size and 

 shape of fruit, cannot be distinguished from the Newman ; but the fruit is 

 of a waxy yellow color, and its quality is far inferior, — about equal to the 

 common Chickasaw. 



