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enough) it has borne abundant crops. The variety 

 was neglected, and never bronghl to the notice of 

 the public till 1879, when Dr. J. II. Robinson (of 

 the same township) read a paper on Chickasaw plums 

 before the Indiana Eorticultural Society, and gave a 

 very flattering description of this plum. Be had 

 been watching it since 1872, and had had two good 

 crops on his own trees, which bore two bushels to the 

 tree five years after planting. It was named by the 

 Putnam County Horticultural Society in honor of Dr. 

 Robinson. Albertson & Bobbs, nurserymen, of Bridge- 

 port, Indiana, introduced the variety in the fall of 

 1884 and spring of L885. 



Since I860, many plums of the type of these three 

 have come into notice in the region south of the Ohio 

 and east of Kansas. Some of the leading varieties 

 are Wayland, which came np in a plum thicket in 

 the garden of Professor II. B. Wayland, Cadiz. Ken- 

 tucky, and which was introduced to the public by 

 Downer & Bro., Fairview, Kentucky, about 1876; 



-^ I| -- "i Apricol (or Hone; Drop), a plum found 



wild in Missouri and introduced i>.\ Stark Bros., 

 nurserymen, <»t' Louisiana, Missouri, in l^sc- More- 

 man, a Kentucky plum, introd d bj W. V. Beikes 



m 1881 : Golden Beauty, found wild in Texas, and 

 introduced by George Onderdouk in 1874; Potta- 

 wattamie, found in Tennessee, but taken west and 

 first prominentlj introduced by -I . I'.. Rice, Council 

 Bluffs, I«.wa. in is7.~. : Newman (Fig. 23), found in 

 Kentucky, ami introduced bj W. P. Beikes. 



Whil.' these events were transpiring in the South, 

 another type ■•!' native plums was coming into promi- 

 nence in the apper Mississippi valley. In this region 



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