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appears to be a native of this country. There is the com- 

 mon Cherry Plum, or Myroholan of Europe, which is rather 

 larger, and shaped like a heart. In all else the same. 

 There is also the Golden Cherry Plum. Shy bearer. 



Cherry Plum. A seedling from the Cherry Plum, 

 which is worthy as a market plum in Philadelphia. 



Chickasaw Plum (Prunus Chicasa, Michaux). 



Eemarks. — Fruit about three-quarters of an inch in 

 diameter, round, and red or yellowish red, of a pleasant sub- 

 acid flavor ; ripens pretty early ; skin thin. The branches 

 are thorny, the head rather bushy, with narrow lanceo- 

 late, serrulate leaves, looking a little distance off some- 

 what like those of a peach tree. It usually grows about 

 twelve or fourteen feet high, but on the prairies of Arkan- 

 sas it is only three or four feet high, and in this form it 

 is also common in Texas. The dwarf Texas plum de- 

 scribed by Kenrick is only this species. It is quite 

 ornamental. 



COE'S GOLDEJSr DEOP. Wood, smooth ; color, light 

 yellow, dotted next sun ; form, oval ; size, 1 ; stone, ad- 

 heres ; quality, 1 ; use, table ; flavor, rich and sweet ; 

 rather coarse-grained ; season, August. 



Eemarks. — -An English variety. Tree only moderately 

 productive. Sometimes confounded with Yellow Egg, 

 which is a little larger. It is one of the most delicious 

 of all plums. It is nearly as large as the Washington. 

 It can compare with the Green Gage (the richest-flavored 

 of all plums, as the Seckel is of pears, and the American 

 Golden Eusset of apples) in point of lusciousness, an-d as 

 it comes in after both these are gone, it may be ranked as 

 one of the best kinds yet produced, and ought to have a 

 place in the very smallest collection. Hovey considers it 



