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THE LOVETT COMPANY. 



PLUMS. 



Plant 16 to 18 feet apart each xoay. 



Grown on plum stock. These varieties should be given heavy soil. The curculio must be baffled by 

 jarring or repelled by smudging, to save the crop; and the •"black knot" removed from all trees as soon as it 

 makes its appearance, and bm-ned. 



EUROPEAN VARIETIES. 



First class, 5)^ to 7 ft. ea., 

 Bradshaw {Black Imperial.) Very large; dark violet 



\red; juicy; vigorous; productive. Early. 

 f Coe's Golden Drop. Large, handsome, yellow; firm, 



\rich, sweet, popular. Late. 

 General Hand. Very large; yellow, handsome; only 

 fail' quality; productive. Midseason. 

 German Prune. Medimn, oval; purple, juicy, rich, 

 \ sweet, productive, popular. Midseason. 



Imperial Gage (Prmce's lynperiaT). Large, oval; 

 \^eenish; juicy, rich, excellent; desirable. 



Lombard. Medium, oval; violet-red; flesh yellow, 

 juicv, sugarv; a great bearer. Midseason. 

 IMonroe f.gg, Mediima, oval; greenish-yellow; sweet; 

 - vigorous, productive. Early. 



^Vj IMoore's Arctic. Medium, roimdish-oval; purplish- 

 black with blue bloom; flesh greenish-yellow, juicy, 



30c.; doz., $3.00; 100, $15.00. 

 sweet and pleasant. Vigorous grower and abundant 

 .bearer; very hardy. 



Quackenboss. Large; deep purple; flesh coarse, juicy, 

 .sprightly. Midseason. 



Reine Claude {De Ba.vey). Very large; greenish 

 shaded red; fine flavor; proliflc. Late. 

 V Richland. Medium; greeuish-pm-ple ; flmx sweet, ex- 

 cellent; productive and reliable.' Early. 

 ~ Shipper's Pride. Large, roimd, purple, very firm, 

 excellent quality. A strong, upright grower and regu- 

 lar bearer. Very productive. 



' Shropshire Damson. An improvement upon and 



double the size of the common Damson. 



^ Washington (Balmer's). Very large; yellowish-gTeen; 



juicy, sweet, good; rots badly. Early. 



\Yellow Egg {Magnum Bonum). Large; yellow; 



juicy, rich; vigorous, productive. Early. 



AMERICAN AND ORIENTAL VARIETIES. 



Burbank. An excellent variety from Japan, exces- 

 sively productive and entirely hardy. It has proved 

 superior to most of the other varieties of this class. The 

 fruit is medium to large, rotmdish-conical, dark purplish- 

 red; fiesh yellow, melting, juicy, rich, sugary: a good 

 shipper. Stone small and free. The tree is a vigorous 

 grower and comes into bearing early. 1st c, ea., 40c. ; 

 3 for 81.00; doz., ^.50. Medium, ea., 30c; 3 for 75c.; 

 . doz., 82.50. ' \ 



\ 0?on. A handsome, very desirable Japanese plumX 

 Large, nearly round with deep suture, of a bright 

 golden yellow with faint bloom ; flesh firm, sweet, rich 

 and di-y. Excellent for canning. The tree is vigorous 

 and entirely hardy and like most of the Japanese plums 

 exceedingly productive. Last of July. 1st c, ea., 40c. ; 

 3 for $1.00; doz., $3.50. 



Satsuma. From Japan, Large, clear purple; flesh 

 purplish-crimson, fii-m, good; good shipper. Pit 

 exceedingly small. A vigorous grower, and inclined 

 to overbear. Ripens about midseason — three or four 

 weeks befoie Kelsey. Very fine. Every home collec- 

 tion should include one or more trees of each of these 

 fine Japanese plums here named. 1st c, ea., 40c; 3 for 

 11.00; doz., 83.50. Medimn, ea., 30c.; 3 for 75c.; doz., 

 82.50. 



Wild Goose {True). Native. Large; crimson, flesh 

 soft, melting, rich, delicious ; tree a strong grower and 

 very prohfic. Many spurious kinds are sold for TVild 

 Goose, but the true sort is large, and ripens early in 

 July. It is a most profitable market sort and sells 

 readily. 1st c, ea., 2oc. ; 3 for 60c. ; doz., 82.00. 



< ABUNDANCE. (Yellow-fleshed Botan.) 



The most productive of plums, bending the limbs of trees with 

 the weight of fruit until they often break. An exceedingly early 

 bearer, even yoimg trees in the nursery row being loaded. The 

 fruit is large, showy and beautifid. Amber, turning to a rich, 

 bright cherry color with a decided white bloom, and highly per- 

 fumed. Flesh Light yellow, exceedingly jvucy and tender, and of a 

 delicious sweetness impossible to describe. Stone smaU and parts 

 readily from the flesh. For canning it is also of the greatest excel- 

 lence. Its season is vetn/ early, ripening in advance of other pliuns. 

 The curculio has no effect upon it, and one may be very certain of 

 a crop of plums if he wiU but plant the Abimdance. It is indeed a 

 remarkable fruit and unlike any other plum. In growth and habit \ 

 it is so strong and handsome as to render it worthy of being planted 

 as an ornamental tree, equalling in thi'ift and beauty the Kieffer 

 Pear which it even excels in early and profuse bearing. VTe have 

 seen even little one and two years old trees, but a few feet in height, 

 white with bloom and set heavily with large, fine plmns. Ripens 

 early in August. 1st c, ea., 35c. ; 3 for 90c. ; doz., 83.00; 100, 820.00. 

 Medium, ea., 25c.; 3 for 60c.; doz., $2.00; 100, $15.00. 



