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that people seem to like. It is prolific and marvelous in its 

 bearing qualities. I\Ir. Hoyt is here and I think he sold 

 some of this fruit last year. He had some to take home. It 

 is the Oriental plum. 



Mr. Hoyt: I saw the plum growing on trees at Mr. 

 Perry's alongside of other varieties he had there, the Satsuma 

 and Abundance, Chabot, and other varieties. One of his 

 varieties had not any plums at all on the trees that amounted 

 to anything, but these trees of this variety were certainly full 

 and very fine looking. They impressed me very favorably 

 indeed ; the trees seemed to hang full, and the fruit had not 

 rotted like the others had, and they were of fair size and very 

 red like tiie Satsuma. He gave me some to take home, which 

 my wife canned, and we were eating them the other day and 

 we all pronounced them the best plums we ever had eaten, 

 and they are a good plum — there is no mistake about that — 

 but we want to see them growing somewhere outside of Mr. 

 Perr}'s nursery. Xow the gentleman was speaking" of the 

 October Purple as being a poor grower ; I can't understand 

 that, because it has always been with me a very strong grower, 

 and the question came to my mind whether he had got the 

 true October Purple, and I would like to ask the gentleman 

 where he got his trees ? 



Mr. Je\\'ell: I got them from Mr. Butler, our nearest 

 neighbor, and I think he got the stock from you. 



Mr. Hoyt : I don't know about that, but the October Purple 

 is a strong growing tree; it is stronger than the P)Urbank an 1 

 nearly as strong as the Hale. 



Mr. Jewell: I think there is a difference in the soil. 



Mr. SkillmAxX : \\'hen does this Oriental plum of yours 

 ripen, Mr. Perry? 



Mr. Perry : It commences to ripen about the tenth of 

 August, and I think they lasted this year until the second day 

 of November, election day. 



Mr. Skillman: What is the color? 



Mr. Perry : Red. 



President Eddy: We will now take up the main subject 

 of the afternoon, "Fighting Insects and Diseases." and first 



