The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . Ky. It is a large plum, of a light red color, and is an improvement inthat species. Ripens in August. Tree vigorous, and attains a large size,but docs not bear heavy crops, as it is moncecious, the staminate flowerspredominating largely. Improvancnt of the Native Plum. ^A7 It is quite ornamental when in bloom, as it is completely covered withlarge clusters of flowers, like snowballs, before a leaf appears. Wild-goose Plum. — There is a tradition that this plum received itsname from the fact that a gentleman in Tennessee killed a wi
The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . Ky. It is a large plum, of a light red color, and is an improvement inthat species. Ripens in August. Tree vigorous, and attains a large size,but docs not bear heavy crops, as it is moncecious, the staminate flowerspredominating largely. Improvancnt of the Native Plum. ^A7 It is quite ornamental when in bloom, as it is completely covered withlarge clusters of flowers, like snowballs, before a leaf appears. Wild-goose Plum. — There is a tradition that this plum received itsname from the fact that a gentleman in Tennessee killed a wild goose, and. found in its craw some plum-seeds, which he planted, and produced thisfruit; or that the wild geese flying over dropped the seed where theygrew, — which, to say the least of it, sounds a little apocr}phal; or asDr. Phillips of Mississippi says, As well to have said the man in the moonspat out the seed. Wild geese may eat plums (?); but they do not fly overMississippi or Tennessee in plum-time. 148 Grape-Growing in Wisconsin. This tree has been so extensive!) raised from seed (it will not exactlyreproduce itself, which it might do if first fed to wild geese), that the fruitknown by this name in different sections is quite dissimilar; so that thename now applies to a class of plums rather than a variety. This accountsfor the differing opinions and representations we have of it. The sub-varieties have a great many local names,—as Nolan Plum, Eu-reka Plum, Hog Plum, Goose-egg Plum, Tennessee Plum, King of Plums,(Sec. ; each of them, perhaps, differing from the others in some particula
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