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ceived our .scions; and we shall be much mistaken if it does 

 not become one of the most popular of all plums. 



The tree is a remarkably healthy and vigorous grower, 

 making very stout and remarkably short-jointed wood, with 

 more prominent shoulders to 

 the buds than even the Green 

 Gage, and with large deep 

 green foliage. Wood dark, 

 slightly downy. 



Size, lai'ge, about one and 

 three quarter inches broad, and 

 one and five eighths long iForm, 

 roundish, regular, similar to the 

 Green Gage, but depressed at 

 each end, rather more broad 

 than long ; suture shallow, 

 with an indented apex : >S'/.:m, 

 fair, green, becoming yellowish 

 when ripe, mottled and dotted ^^s- ^S- McLaughlin. 



with brownish red around the base, and covered with a thin 

 whitish bloom : Stem, short, about half an inch long, stout, 

 and inserted in a very small cavity, without depression : 

 Flesh, yellow, thick, very melting, and adhering to the stone : 

 Juice, abundant, rich, sugary, and perfectly luscious : Stone, 

 small, roundish ovate, obtusely pointed, nearly smooth. Ripe 

 the last of August. 



Art. VII. Pomological Gossip. 



De Montfort Plum. — This new plum, which has now 

 been introduced four or five years, fruited for the first time 

 this season, in the collection of Col. Wilder, and proves to 

 be an excellent early plum, having much of the character of 

 the Reine Claude Violet. It is about the same size, of the 

 same color, and similar to it in form. It will rank among 

 the best early varieties of this fruit. 



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