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and Bradshaw sold at from 95c. to $1.10 })er basket of twelve (luarts ; the Wash- 

 ington and Lombard at 50c. : the (leneral Hand, Yellow Egg, Coe's Golden 

 Drop, and Bavay's C.reen (iage at 65c. ; the Peach plum at 75c. to 85c., and 

 the Quackenbos and Cllass at from 95c. to $1.15 per basket. I regard 

 the Glass seedling as our most valuable late market plum. The tree is very 

 hardy and productive, and the fruit very large and attractive, showing to fine 

 advantage in the basket. Heie. by way of digression, I would say, that it ap- 

 pears to me very remarkable that a plum possessing so many valuable qualities, 

 should not have found a place on the Industrial Fair's Prize List, and thereby 

 be recommended to the public as one of the profitable varieties to be propagated. 

 It is also remarkable how valuable the (ilass seedling is to many exhibitors, 

 when they happen to be short of a dark-colored ])lum to supply the section to 

 be represented ; then this plum is often used with success, to carry off the prizes 

 which should have been awarded to the varieties named in the particular sec- 

 tions of the prize list for which it was substituted. At the Lidustrial Fair held 

 in 1890, I noticed that the Glass seedling took prizes in three or four sections 

 allotted to other varieties. 



In the above list of market plums, I have left out Pond's seedling, as I have 

 not found it so productive as the varieties I have named, and because in late 

 years it has become very subject to rot. ^^"he^ it is free from rot, its fine size 

 and color cause it to sell at a good price. 



The varieties I value most for i)reserves and dessert, are as follows:— For 

 preserves, Niagara, General Hand, Coe's Golden Drop, and Bavays Green Gage. 

 For dessert, the Green Gage, Imperial Gage, and McLaughlin, the latter being 

 the best of all. The tree is very hardy and productive of large, finely-colored, 

 luscious fruit, and in localities where the peach fails to bear, is the most valuable 

 substitute therefor. I have not included the McLaughlin among the market 

 varieties, because it ripens with the great majority at mid-season, when the mar- 

 ket is overstocked wijh fruit and when plums sell at a very low price. 



Whiihy, 2ist Dtc. i8gi. ]■ K. Goklon. 



The Excelsior, or Hale's Hardy, peach, is highly spoken of in the American 

 Garden. It was recommended at the recent meeting of the American Pomo- 

 logical Society, and specimens there exhibited were remarkable for their high 

 color and beautiful api)earance, although of medium size and fiiir (juality. Mr. 

 Hale says the tree makes a low, Sjircading head, and will bear a good crop when 

 the buds on all other sorts are killed. This peach originated at Lowell. Mass. 

 It is very harily and prolific, having borne full crops annually for '(wq years in 

 Massachusetts, and in Greenville and Goftstown, N.H. It has stood 12 below 

 zero and had a full cr(»p. when all oilier varieties in the same locality were 

 killed. 



