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texture the Plum is firm and meaty, and a most important feature that 
■will undoubtedly commend it to all orchardists is the superior qualities it 
possesses^ for shipping long distances, can be sent to any part of our 
country, it remaining solid longer than any other variety.’ 
“ Mr. Thomas Meehan of Germantown, Philadelphia, Editor of Gar- 
committee on new fruits, in their report, advise fruit-growers to give 
attention to the cultivation of this fruit. It should be stated that his fruit 
bears no relation whatever to the Loquat, an evergreen tree more commonly 
called Japan Plum. 
Messrs. VV. P. Hammon & Co., of Oakland inform us that they made 
Fig. 60.—KELSEY’S JAPAN PLUM. 
dencrs' Monthly, in speaking of this fruit sent him by Hammon & Co., 
October 2nd, 1882, says in the November number of his magazine : —‘The 
flesh is firm and flavour admirable. If it prove adapted to our climate 
there is no doubt of the great value of the introduction.’ At the meeting 
cf the California State Hurticultural Society, October 27th, 1882, the 
arrangements with Mrs. Kelsey, so that they will be enabled to furnish 
trees propagated direct from the original trees, thus avoiding any con¬ 
fusion in varieties of other Japan Plums, of which no others of special 
value are yet known here.” 
[Mr. Bull’s correspondent states he is a native of Dorsetshire, and that 
