410 Smith's Orleans Plum. 



Tournament, and several others. The Egg plant we saw 

 here in great perfection, with some extraordinary large 

 fruits. Of roses, perennial and annual plants, Mr. Skinner 

 has a great variety, but at this late season of the year, but 

 little could be seen of their beauty. The garden is kept in 

 the neatest order, and the arrangement of the trees near the 

 house was managed with fine effect. 



The afternoon being nearly spent, we had not time to 

 visit the gardens of our correspondent, Mr. B. Silliman, Jr., 

 and some other gentlemen. At a more favorable season of 

 the year, we hope again to have the pleasure of visiting our 

 friends in New Haven. To Dr. Monson and Mr. W hitney 

 we tender our thanks for their kind attentions during our 

 stay in the city. 



(To be continued.) 



Art. II. Figure and description of SmitJis Orleans Plvm, 

 with remarks on the confusion liitherto existing with re- 

 gard to this variety. By A. J. Downing, Highland Hor- 

 ticultural Nurseries, Newburgh, N. Y. 



The Smith's Orleans plum is an American variety pretty 

 extensively cultivated, but under so many different and 

 erroneous names, that my attention has lately been called 

 to it, and I have prepared an outline and a correct descrip- 

 tion of it. in order that the vexed question of its true name 

 may be at last settled. 



At the last annual exhibition of the Mass. Horticultural 

 Society, I observed this fruit upon the tables, under the fol- 

 lowing names: Smith's Orleans, Duane's Purple, Large 

 Orleans and Violet Perdrigon. On the North river, in some 

 parts, it is incorrectly called Red Magnum bonum, Large 

 Purple, and Violet Perdrigon : and about New York I have 

 seen it exhibited under both names of Violet Perdrigon and 

 Purple Magnum bonum. At Flushing, the variety is known 

 in the older nurseries as Smith's Orleans ; in the newer 

 ones as the Violet Perdrigon. 



The singular confusion with regard to this native variety 

 has undoubtedly grown out of the fact, that Mr. Prince, in 

 his original description of this variety, in the Pomological 



