THE PLUM. 



955 



Fruit large, roundish, oblong oval. Skin greenish yellow, slight red 

 cheek in sun, thin white bloom. Flesh firm, yellow, melting, juicy, 

 sweet ; separates from the stone. Good. Early September. 



Young. 

 Young's Seedling. 



From Pennsylvania. Tree vigorous. Branches smooth. 



Fruit medium, roundish oval, deep reddish purple, with a blue 

 bloom. Flesh yellow, not juicy, sweet ; separates from the stone. Good. 

 Last of August. 



ORNAMENTAL VARIETIES. 



There are few varieties of Plums which are considered purely orna- 

 mental. One, however, is a remarkable exception to this, as it is scarcely 

 exceeded in beauty in the month of May by any other flowery shrub — 

 we mean the Double-Flowering Sloe. It is a large shrub, only 10 

 or 12 feet high, with quite slender shoots and leaves, but it is thickly 

 sprinkled, every spring, with the prettiest little double white blossoms 

 about as large as a sixpence, resembling the Lady Banks' Poses. It is 

 one of the greatest favorites of the Chinese and Japanese — those flower- 

 loving people. 



The Common English Sloe, or Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa), is 

 rather an ornamental tree in shrubbery plantations. The branches are 

 more thorny than those of the common Damson, and the fruit is nearly 

 round, quite black, but covered with a thick blue bloom. In the spring 

 this low tree is a perfect cloud of white blossoms. 



The Double-blossomed Plum has large and handsome double white 

 flowers. Except in strong soils, however, they are apt to degenerate 

 and become single, and are, indeed, always inferior in effect to the 

 Double Sloe. 



The Cherry Plum we have already described. It is one of the fruit- 

 bearing sorts. 



SELECTION OF VARIETIES FOR TABLE, MARKET, AND COOKING. 



Bavay's Green Gage. Table and market. 



Bleecker's Gage. Table and market. 



Bradshaw. Market and cooking. 



Coe's Golden Drop. Table, market, and cooking. 



Denniston's Superb. Table and market. 



German Prune. Market and cooking. 



Green Gage. Table and market. 



Howard's Favorite. Table and market. 



Hudson Gage. Table and market. 



Imperial Gage. Table and market. 



Imperial Ottoman. Table and market. 



Jefferson. Table and market. 



Lawrence's Favorite. Table and market. 



Lombard. Market and cooking. 



