. Descriptive catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs, vines and plants. Nurseries (Horticulture) Maryland Baltimore Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. 46 Franklin Davis Nursery Bo tan Plum. Monroe, McLaughlin, Pottawottamie, Peter's Yellow Gage, Staunton, Sweet Botan, L nion Purple. Yellow Egg. {Hliite Mignum Bonum.) A very popular fruit on account of its very large size and splendid appearance ; its slight acidity renders it valuable for making sweetmeats ; skin yellowish, covered with
. Descriptive catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs, vines and plants. Nurseries (Horticulture) Maryland Baltimore Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. 46 Franklin Davis Nursery Bo tan Plum. Monroe, McLaughlin, Pottawottamie, Peter's Yellow Gage, Staunton, Sweet Botan, L nion Purple. Yellow Egg. {Hliite Mignum Bonum.) A very popular fruit on account of its very large size and splendid appearance ; its slight acidity renders it valuable for making sweetmeats ; skin yellowish, covered with a white bloom ; flesh yellow, adhering closely to the stone ; rather acid until it becomes very ripe. Last of July. ADDITIONAL LIST OF PLUMS. Bassett's American, Golden Beaut}', Beauty of Naples, Hudson Gage' Columbia, Hudson River Purple Gage, Domine Dull, Huling's Superb, DeCaradeuc, * Indian Chief Forest Rose, Langdon, Forest Garden, Lawrence Favorite, Frogmore Damson, Middleburg, JAPANESE OR ORIENTAL PLUMS. This new strain of Plums has been received with general favor, and in the South, where the European kinds do not succeed as well as at the North, they have proved a blessing. In some sections where the Chickasaw or native kinds (Wild Goose, etc. ) only are success- ful, the Japanese kinds are especially welcome, as they rate up in quality quite well with the very best European varieties. The Japanese Plums, with the exception of one kind, are extremely hardy and vigorous, bearing early and abundantly annual loads of rich, luscious fruit, ripening from .early in June to September. One very valuable quality of the Japanese Plum is, that the wound made by the cur- culio (an enemy to Plum culture everywhere;, does not seem to affect the Japan kinds to the same extent as European and other kinds ; while they are not curculio proof entirely, yet for some reason the wound soon heals and the fruit matures perfectly. This may be attributed to the extremely strong and vigorous na
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