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which are evidently a bosh-like form of tin-* species." These 

 musl also have been Prunus Watsoni* The varieties, Purple 

 Panhandle, Bed Panhandle and Fellow Panhandle, were intro- 

 duced from Texas by P. T. Ramsey. .Mr. Ramsey Bays thai 

 eight or uine yean ago he got ;i quantity of stock "from virions 

 counties in the upper Panhandle proper" <>t' Texas. Besides 

 the varieties named, he bad another called Clarendon. Be Bays 

 further: "I bave been greatly disappointed in them here, and 

 bave dropped them from my catalogue this year, for the one i 

 thai they 'li'l not grow large enough. This winter I bave been 

 surprised t<> have Beveral inquiries t'<>r them from parties who 

 bought them from me, on account of the enormous crops they 



hop-." 



It Beems entirely possible thai we may yel find ourselves in 

 i — ession of Borne valuable varieties derived from this Bp< 

 though no very Bweeping recommendation could fairly be given 

 any variety now known. 



At one time and another I have heard a i: I deal of talk 



about using Prunus Watsoni as a dwarf stoek for working other 

 plums, l>ut I never knew of an experiment in thai line. The 

 tendency to Bprout from the roots would be a defecl in using 

 the plants for Btocks. 



In .Maryland, the young growth ami blossoms, especially of 

 Strawberry, are severely damaged by the brown- rot fungus, 

 Monilia fructigena. In their original wild state, along the 

 Arkansas river, they used to he free from brown-rot, black- 

 knot ami GUreulio, hut I lived in that country long enough my- 

 self to see them attacked by both curculio and black-knot. 



Tin rivularis plum, — The Towakong or Creek plum, 

 of Texas, i^ <>u<- of irhich I have qo personal knowl- 

 edge, excepl Prom herbarium s| imens. It was ftrsl 



broughl to notice by the botanical collector Lind- 

 heimer, and described in L848 bj Scheele ;i> Prunus 

 rivularis in "Linnaea" \\i. p. 594). This is a bush} 

 plant, three )«• si\ feet high, which Graj Bpeaks of as 



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