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for cooking. It has thick dark foliage, and pendulous branches, 

 and does not sprout after it commences to bear heavily. The 

 fruit is about as large as a good-sized black currant, with a stone 

 no larger than an ordinary bird cherry. It is a pleasant acid, 

 rather too acid to eat raw, but so valued for pies as to be grown 

 largely. .... 



Dr. Hogg, also, mentions a variety of the native Cerasus Vul- 

 garis, under the name of Peramdam, which has been grown in one 

 place in Lincolnshire for 200 years or more. Dr. Hogg has him- 

 self a tree of it ; 00 years old, and yet not more than seven feet 

 high. A small round fruit, half an inch in diameter, pale red and 

 of agreeable lively acidity. Its hardiness, of course, I know 

 nothing of. 



Our wild red cherry, or pigeon cherry {Prunus Pennsylvamca), 

 has been recommended as a stock for the cultivated cherry. If 

 suitable, certainly no stock could be hardier or more readily 

 procurable. Botanically, it is ^aid of all our native species 

 to be that most nearly related to the European cherry. We are 

 greatly in need of a hardy, cheap stock. The experience of Mr. 

 W. G. Waring, of Tyrone, Pa., as given in Report Iowa Horticul- 

 tural Society, 1880, is very encouraging. 



What I would urge in this matter is the introduction in quan- 

 tity of the Vladimir and Ostheim into this country for extensive 

 trial. 



PLUMS. 



In all our most northern rambles in Central Russia, we find 

 the plum grown in fair quantity, and supplying a certain amount 

 to the local markets. In the severe climates of Moscow, Vladimir 

 and Kazan, we find plums, and some of them of really fine quality ; 

 and we are told that in the village of Gorbatovka, forty miles from 

 Nijni Novgorod, they are grown in large quantity for the Nijni and 

 Moscow markets. These plums belong to a family more or less 

 nearly related to the Quetche or Prune plums of Germany and 

 Hungary. Like the Vladimir Cherry, these northern forms of the 



