Iinprovcincnt of tJie Native Plum. 



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The Miner F/urn. — I'his plum received its name from a Mr. Miner of 

 Grant County, Wis., who took the trees there from Illinois. I received my 

 trees from Wisconsin, but have not yet fruited them. I am indebted to a 

 gentlemen who has fruited them for the outlines of the fruit as repre- 

 sented in the cut. The leaves and wood are drawn from the trees I have. 

 There has been some controversy as to whether it is a native or not. 



Judging from what I have seen of it, I am of opinion that it is a variety 

 of the Myrobalan or Cherry Plum, and a native. A correspondent of 

 " The American Agriculturist " pronounces it a Cliickasaw. He is cer- 

 tainly mistaken ; for it resembles it in no respect. The fruit is red, of 

 medium size ; is very firm and hard ; and has a thick skin, which the curculio 

 finds it difficult to penetrate. The leaves have on them two pairs of globose 

 glands, — one pair on the stem, and the other on the margin of the leaf, — 



