THE CHASE NURSERIES. 
JAPANESE PLUMS. 
To Japan we owe many valuable fruits and flowers, but perhaps the most 
valuable, in man}' respects, are the plums recently introduced from that coun- 
tr}'. First, the trees are hardy and perfectly healthy ; second, they are 
remarkably .strong and beautiful growers, and early bearers, orchard trees 
bearing the second season after transplanting ; third, they yield immense crops 
of fruit, which is practically exempt from the attacks of the curculio ; fourth, 
by planting the different varieties, one can have plums for a period of nearly 
three months. 
Abundance. The fruit is full medium size ; color a rich, bright cherry red, 
with a distinct bloom, and highly perfumed ; flesh light yellow, very juicy 
and tender, and of excellent quality. It ripens in Western New York the 
last of July. 
