TYPICAL VARIETIES 17!) 



the plums were large and thick-skinned, often flat- 

 tened, and bearing a distinct suture or groove, the 

 flesh firm and meaty, and the stone usually large and 

 often very flat. The tree, too, is of a differenl 

 type, being a stiff grower, with .lull shoots and large, 

 heavy, dull, more or less obovate and coarsely toothed 

 leaves, while those in the South are slender, 

 twiggy growers, with brighl or light-colored shoots, 

 and more slender and often peach-like, closely toothed 

 leaves. The settlers in Wisconsin, northern Illinois. 

 Minnesota and [owa Pound this type of plum abun- 

 dant in the timber belts. Very often trees were found 

 bearing frail of unusual size aud excellence. Such 

 trees were removed to gardens, or seeds of them were 

 sown, and verj soon a new race of plums had come 

 into cultivation. 



The Wolf was one of the firsl of Has.- varieties 

 to be named. This originated on the farm of I). B. 

 Wolf. Wapello county, [owa, about forty years ago, 

 from pits -.nd to have been gathered from wild trees. 



The Etollingstone i> on.- of the prominent varieties 

 "'i' this type. It was found nearly fortj years ago 

 on the bank of the Etollingstone Creek, Winona 

 county, Minnesota, bj <>. M. Lord. an. I he intro- 

 duced it to public notice aboul fifteen years ago. 

 'I'l"' fruit "f iin- Etollingstone i- verj large (often 1'.. 

 inches each in diameter), round, flattened and truncate 

 ;| ' tlir. -nd-. mottled and spotted pink-purple, -kin vrerj 

 Ihick ; flesh Ann, Bweel and excellent; semi-cling, 

 stonr nearly circular, rather flat, sharp on the back 

 edge, nearlj smooth ; leaves large ami ftrm. 



'I'll.- Quaker was found wild l.\ Joseph Bundy, of 

 Bpringville, Linn county, Iowa. It was disseminated 



