Improvancnt of the Native Plum. 



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It is quite ornamental when in bloom, as it is completely covered with 

 large clusters of flowers, like snowballs, before a leaf appears. 



Wild-goose Plum. — There is a tradition that this plum received its 

 name from the fact that a gentleman in Tennessee killed a wild goose, and 



found in its craw some plum-seeds, which he planted, and produced this 

 fruit ; or that the wild geese flying over dropped the seed where they 

 grew, — which, to say the least of it, sounds a little apocr}'phal ; or as 

 Dr. Phillips of Mississippi says, " As well to have said the man in the moon 

 spat out the seed. Wild geese may eat plums (?) ; but they do not fly over 

 Mississippi or Tennessee in plum-time." 



