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to a conclusion which we ought to have reached independently 

 : namely, that m> full classification of our cultivated varie- 

 u be made which shall be satisfactory to everybody. It is 

 a matter <>t" unquestionable convenience to "livi.it- our multiform 

 varieties into Beveral groups, but the lines between these groups 

 are purely imaginary and arbitrary, and certain varieties which 

 eome mar the division line somewhere may be put i nt< > one 

 group by one man and int.. the other group l>y another, and 

 both men be right. It is all a matter o£ judgment, and a very 

 delicate matter, too. There has already been too much contro- 

 versy over Bome of these doubtful varieties. What plum students 

 need now is less controversy and more patience. 



The cultivated hortulana plums may be besl understood by 

 arranging them in four groups. Three of these have been men- 

 tioned—the Miner group, the Wild Goose group, and the Schley or 

 Clifford group. These form an unbroken series from Prunus 

 Americana to P. angustifolia. There is a fourth group at present 

 classified with the hortulanas, tint comparatively distinct from the 

 others. This group is made up of Buch varieties as Wayland, 

 Moreman, Golden Beauty, Reed, Leptune, Kanawha and others. 



Waugh makes ;i further contribution to the Bubjecl 

 in the following sketch of "The Wayland group <d' 

 plums : " 



Iii an article in last week's issue [quoted above] I called 

 attention t<. the continuity of the Beries of intergradients 

 between the Americana and the Chickasaw plums, and 

 that t might be roughly marked by three types, the 



Miner, the Wild <;.p,,~e, and the Schley <>r Clifford. It was 

 also noted thai another group, Btanding somewhat aside from 

 . might, for the presenl at least, be regarded a> 

 ring among the hortulana plums, and thai this group 

 is comparatively distinct, and very interesting. This I have 



the Wayland groupl from one i>r its | 

 the Wayland plum. Golden Beauty is d type of this 



group, and is well known in the southern stab h not 



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