STOCK GUARANTEED TRUE TO NAME, 
THE MINER PLUM. 
CURCULIO PROOF. 
This wonderful variety originated in Pennsylvania, but for some reason has 
been more thoroughly tried in the West than in its native Slate. 
'We recoinmend it as the most valuable Plum in existance, and to all lovers of 
this fruit we say : ''Plant a few Miners, and you will never regret it. " The fruit 
is of good size, of a rich purplish-red color, with a fine bloom, and when fully 
ripe, soft, melting and juicy. The tree is a good grower, perfectly hardy, a young, 
constant and heavy bearer. 
The following testimonials are from distinguished fruit growers, and the cur- 
culio is more troublesome, if possible, where these gentlemen live than in the 
East 
Mr. Masters, of Nebraska, who was a delegate to the American Pomological Society, 
said in an address before that body : "I have fruited the Miner I'lum several years, and so 
far it has not been troubled by the curculio." 
Prof. J. L.. Budd, in Western Pomologist, says: — "Its remarkable productiveness, its 
extreme hardiness and e.vcellent quality of fnijt, has so commended it to the people, that its 
spread from neighborhood to neighborhood in Wisconsin, Northern Illinois and Iowa, 
has been exceedingly rapid. " 
J. S. Stickney, of Wauwatosa, Wis., in an address before the State Horticultural 
Society said : — "Miner Plums this season found their way into the Milwaukee market. And 
such plums I large, smooth, fair, wonderfully uniform in size and inviting in appearance. 
One shipment of thirty-six cases, (2 bushels to a case,) disappeared in a very short time, at 
/"our dollars a bushel. Nothing shown in our market this year has excited more interest." 
J. C. Cover, Editor of the Grant County, III., Herald, in a letter published in the 
Prairie Farmer, Oct. 20th, i865. says: — "Perhaps I know more of the history of this plum 
than any other, as some of the first trees of this kind brought from Lancaster were shared 
with me by Mr. Miner, who had moved here from somewhere on the Apple river. He said 
*I have brought here some scions of a plum, the best I ever saw, and you will say so when 
they bear.' And so it has proved." 
Mark Miller, Editor of the Western Pomologist. in the number of that Magazine for 
October, 1870, says : — "Mr. Alfred Geddings sends us a liberal package of the Miner Plums, 
the first fruit of it we have ever seen. Fruit about the size of the Lombard, and in quality 
comes quite up to expectation, from what we had previously learned of it. We could dis- 
cover no marks of the curculio, the fruit being plump and fair. Taking into account fair 
quality of fruit, the hardiness and great productiveness of the tree, we cannot but regard the 
Miner as a valuable acquisition to the fruit garden." 
The above is but a very small pai t of the testimonials we could collect in 
favor of this, the choicest and most vaUiablo of all plums. All are unanimous in 
the statement that it is practically free from the attacks of the curculio, always 
bearing immensely, and ripening its fruit perfectly. This plum is spreading 
among fruit-growers with a rapidity never before equalled, for the reason that 
when the delicious fruit is once seen it is always valued highly, and the great 
, productiveness of the tree renders it a favorite with every fruit-grower. Remem- 
l)er, it ripens its fruit perfectly, instead of dropping it like ordinary varieties. 
