A. B, Hood €f Co.’s Descriptive Catalogue 
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Select Plums 
The Pliini will ^row vigorously in almost every part of this country, but it 
bears its finest and most abundant crops in heavy loams, or where there is consider- 
able clay ; it will bloom and set a fine crop in a sandy soil, but in such soils it gener- 
ally falls a prey to the curculio, and drops prematurely. There are, however, some 
varieties that succeed very well in such situations. 
The Curculio, a small, brown insect, commences its depredations on this fruit as 
soon as it has attained the size of a pea, and continues its course of destruction until 
the crop is matured. It makes a small, crescent-shaped incision in the fruit, and lays 
its egg in the opening; the egg hatches into a worm, which feeds upon the fruit, caus- 
ing it to fall prematurely, Tlie only preventive that is known to succeed with any 
tiegree of certainty is to pltice a white sheet under the tree early in the morning, when 
cool, and by jarring the tree suddenly the insect falls upon the cloth, and, being stiff, 
can easily be caught, by commencing this as soon as the fruit is formed, and con- 
tinuing it daily for about three weeks, you may be able to save a good crop. 
K.xemption may not be secured from black fungus or knot, but if branches affected 
are carefully removed and burned, and the wounds, caused by removal of branches, 
be well saturated with kerosene oil <md the trees are given careful cultivation, the iti- 
jury to the trees will not be great. 
EUROPEAN AND NATIVE 
VARIETIES 
Coe’s Golden Drop. One of the largest, 
niost beautiful and valuable of late Plums; 
light yellow ; flesh yellow, firm, rich iind 
sweet ; adheres to the stone ; productive. 
Last of August. 
French Damson. A variety said to be 
better than Shropshire; has not fruited 
with us ; purple. 
German Prune. A valuable Plum of 
fair quality for the table but most es- 
teemed for drying and preserving ; fruit 
long and oval ; skin purple, with a thick 
blue bloom ; flesh firm, green, sweet and 
pleasiint ; separates from the stone. 
General Hand. Very large; skin deep 
golden yellow; flesh coarse, pale yellow; 
moderately juicy, sweet and good ; tree 
grows vigorously and is \ ery producti\ e ; 
separates from the stone. August. 
Green Gage. Small, yellowish green; 
flesh pale green, melting, juicy, e.xceed- 
ingly sweet and rich. August. 
Lombard. .Metlium size; skin delicate 
violet, dotted thick red ; flesh deep yel- 
low, juicy and pletisant ; one of the 
hardiest, most productive and valuable 
Plums. Succeeds well everywhere, even 
on light soils. August. 
Prince Englebert. Large ; oblong, oval ; 
skin very deep purple, sprinkled with 
brown dots and covered with a deep blue 
bloom ; flesh yellowish green, juicy, 
sugtiry ; sepanites from the stone ; from 
Helgium ; tree very vigorous ; otie of the 
best. July. 
Heine Claude de Bavay. Large ; greenish 
yellow, spotted with red ; flesh rather 
firm, juicy, sugary, rich, of fine quality; 
adheres slightly to the stone; a vigorous 
grower, very productive, and a valuable 
addition to the late varieties. September. 
Shipper’s Pride. (See t>age 30.) 
Shropshire Damson. .An improvement 
on the common Damson, being of the 
largest size of its class ; dark purple ; 
highly esteemed for preserving; tree 
vigorous and eiK)rmously productive. 
September. 
Spaulding. A fine grower, with large, 
rich dark foliage ; fruit large, yellowish 
green ; flesh firm, sweet ;md sprightly ; 
said to be curculio-proof. Middle to last 
of August. 
" I liavf been engaged with you for tliree years, as agenl, and can say jn all that time 1 have not 
lound a tlissatisned customer. Your trees give entire satisfaction.’* — W m. D. Mu.ks, Walcott. Arkansas, 
July JO, tonj. 
