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Boston. Leaves, globose ; flowers, small ; flesh, yel- 

 low to stone; color, light yellow, deep red cheek; size, 1; 

 quality, 1; season, August; freestone. 



Eemarks. — One of the best; adapted to all locations. 



Downton. Leaves, reniform ; flowers, small ; flesh, pale 

 green ; color, pale green, violet, red cheek ; size, 1 ; qual- 

 ity, 1 ; season. July ; freestone. " 



Eemaeks. — Melting, rich, high flavor. 



Early Yiolet. Leaves, reniform ; flowers, small ; flesh, 

 white, red at stone ; color, yellow, green in shade, dark 

 purple in sun ; size, 1 ; season, July and August ; freestone. 



Eemarks. — Foreign. Tree, very hardy. Not the Bl- 

 ruge. Melting, juicy, rich, and high-flavored. 



Blruge. Leaves, reniform ; flowers, small ; flesh, green ; 

 color, pal^green; size, 2 ; season, August ; freestone. 

 Eemarks. — Foreign. Eich, high flavor. 



We give merely the names of the following, as they are 

 seldom cultivated here, being oftener destroyed by the cur- 

 culio, even, than the plum: — Barker, Early N'ewington, 

 French Yellow, Hunt's Tawny, Hardwicke, Large Early 

 Violet, Neate's White Orange, Eed Eoman, Stanwicke. 



From Report of E. Buchanan, A. H. Ernst, and J. A. 



Warder, to the American Pomological Society. 



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" This fruit, with us, is less hardy than the peach, and is 



liable to be destroyed by the curculio. The varieties most 



in esteem, are the Early Violet, Elruge, Golden, Lewis." 



