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NOTES ON PLUM CULTURE. 
The following table arranged on the same plan as the 
preceeding shows the blossoming period of 56 varieties as 
compiled from observations in the station orchard last spring. 
Five of the varieties are represented by old trees of uncer¬ 
tain age, and of whose early history, we have no record. 
They are probably from 12 to 15 years old. 
The representativesof five others are young trees planted 
in 1897 and blooming for the first time.. The remainder 
were planted in 1894. The flowering period of Joe Hooker 
was probably delayed, and later prolonged by the trees 
having been killed back somewhat during the preceeding 
winter. The flowering period is here computed from the 
time the first flowers opened until the petals had in great 
part fallen. 
