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an ornamental plant of first-rate value, and aa selec- 

 tion and good cultivation will doubtless improve tli«- 

 size and quality of the fruit, it will, perhaps, become 

 a valuable inmate «-t' small fruit-gardens." This sand 



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plum is very lik«- the Chickasaw plum in botanical 

 characters, and I think that it is only a modified form 

 of that Bpecies, the variation having been brought 

 about by the dry soils and climates in which it grows. 

 It differs from the Chickasaw in it >• dwarfer habit, 

 thicker !• .'1 thieker-skiuned fruit, and Bome- 



