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VICTORIA PLUM. 
THE VICTORIA PLUM. 
A correspondent lias asked our opinion of the above, and for 
some account of its history; the former we are happy to be able 
to give in the most unqualified favorable manner. Yfe know it 
to be a most astonishingly free bearer, and, to our taste, of ex¬ 
cellent quality. Of its history we have been obliged with the 
following particulars, by Mr. Denver himself, in which it will be 
seen that “ honour is given where honour is due.” Mr. Denver 
takes no more credit to himself than what he is justly entitled to, 
namely, that of proving the originality of the variety, and pro¬ 
viding for the supply of the public. If we were only going to 
plant two plum trees, the Victoria should be one of them. 
“The Denyer’s Victoria plum has been fruited by Mr. Myatt, 
of Camberwell, for upwards of twenty years, by whom it was 
brought from a cottage garden at Robertsbridge in Sussex, a 
seedling, and having proved it to be the most certain and free 
bearing plum known, and of the finest quality, about fourteen 
years since Mr. Myatt kindly gave me some grafts of this plum, 
saying it was one that ought to be worked and brought into 
notice, and a good name given to it. I then grafted a few trees, 
and planted a two years’ trained one against a north-west wall, 
and, to my astonishment, it bore three fruit the first year, thirty-six 
the second year, and eighty-four the third year. Having thus 
proved it, I proposed to Mr. Myatt to take some of the fruit to 
the horticultural gardens at Chiswick, and he accompanied me, 
to show Dr. Lindley, to ascertain whether there was in their col¬ 
lection a plum like it. After Mr. Thompson had kindly made a 
strict search over the stock of plum trees in the garden, and also 
the book of drawings for fruit, no plum like it could be found, 
and it was then pronounced to be a distinct variety. I then gave 
it the name of ‘ Denyer’s Victoria 'Plum,’ and advertised it in the 
autumn of the same year, and the demand for it has increased 
every succeeding year.” 
