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bear abundantly, notwithstanding that pest to plum cultiva- 

 tors, — the Curculio, destroys every year a large proportion of 

 the crop. Various remedies have been recommended for the 

 protection of young fruit from its attacks. I would therefore 

 recommend the growers to try such as they consider most 

 rational, and communicate the result of their experiments to 

 the public, through the Horticultural journals of the country. 

 Plum trees are also with us liable to the canker or black 

 wart ; the poorer varieties and those of dark colour, are 

 thought to be most apt to be affected with it. Planting on 

 well drained lands, thorough cultivation around the trees, 

 and manuring them with lime, ashes, and a small quantity 

 of salt, will, by the tonic effect induced, render them more 

 likely to escape the disease than if left to themselves ; but if 

 the trees are attacked, notwithstanding this course be pur- 

 sued, free amputation of diseased limbs must be resorted to. 

 The varieties which are cultivated, hardy, and bear abun- 

 dantly, are the Drop d'Or, Reine Claude, Washington, Red 

 Magnum Bonum, White Magnum Bonum, Yellow Egg, 

 Virgin, Coe's Golden Drop, Nectarine, Prince's Imperial 

 Gage, Lombard, Lawrence's Gage, Bleecker's Gage, Denis- 

 ton's Red, Albany Beauty, Mulberry, Buel's Favourite, Jeffer- 

 son, Peter's Large Yellow, Columbia, Schenectady Catherine 

 — a delicious purple plum equal to Reine Claude — fully de- 

 scribed in volume 13th of Hovey^s Magazine, and copied 

 therefrom into the Volume for 1847, of our State Agricultural 

 Transactions, — Ickworth's Imperatrice, Coe's Late Red, Prune 

 D'Agen for Prunes, Purple Favorite, Red Gage, and a few 

 others. The Prune Peche, or Peach Plum, is not sufficiently 

 hardy to withstand our winters, as is the case with the 

 Orange, the Rivers's Seedling — so highly recommended by 

 Rivers in a recent number of the Horticulturist — the Roe's 

 Autimin Gage, the Bingham, the Fotheringham, the Royal 

 Hative, and Louis of Orleans. The Waterloo, the King of 

 Plums, and the first importation of Reine Claude de Bavay, 

 prove to be Coe's Golden Drop. This was predicted by Mr. 

 Rivers, in relation to the latter, as some mistake had occurred 

 with it by ignorant continental nurserymen ; the second im- 



