. Albertson & Hobbs' Bridgeport Nursery catalogue, spring 1887 : new fruits and flowers. Nursery stock Indiana Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs. 12 BRIDGEPORT NURSERY. Robinson Plum.—This is a seedling, grown by a Mr. Picket, of Putnam county Indi- ana, from seed brought with him from Ji North Carolina, near fifty years ago, and ijL has, almost every season (since large I'^g ^ enough), borne abundant crops, but was . h I,' neglected, and never brought to the notice of the public till 1879, when Dr. J. H. Rob- inson (of the same township) read a paper before the Indiana Horticultu
. Albertson & Hobbs' Bridgeport Nursery catalogue, spring 1887 : new fruits and flowers. Nursery stock Indiana Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs. 12 BRIDGEPORT NURSERY. Robinson Plum.—This is a seedling, grown by a Mr. Picket, of Putnam county Indi- ana, from seed brought with him from Ji North Carolina, near fifty years ago, and ijL has, almost every season (since large I'^g ^ enough), borne abundant crops, but was . h I,' neglected, and never brought to the notice of the public till 1879, when Dr. J. H. Rob- inson (of the same township) read a paper before the Indiana Horticultural Society, on Chickasaw Plums, and gave a very flat- tering description of this plum, which he had been watching since 1872, and of which he had two good crops on his own trees,, which bore two bushels to the tree five years after planting, and has borne good crops annually, except once, when killed by late frosts. It was named by the Putnam County- Horticultural Society in honor of Dr. Rob- inson. J. W. Ragan, in his report to Indiana Horticultural Society, 1881, says: "The Robinson bore one-third crop of good smooth plums, twelve trees yielding more than twenty-five bushels. Fruit slightly oblong, nearly round, with an indistinct suture; color, a pretty marbled red on a yellowish ground; flesh, when fairly ripe, very fine, almost sweet; juicy ; when cooked it is one of the best (having almost no trace of that bitter astringency of some of the Chickasaw varieties), and very rich. (This is from experience.) A fine canniDg plum; seed very small. Last season we again visited the orchards of J. H. Robinson and J. B. Johnson in Putnam county. At Mr. Robinson's we ROBINSON PLUM. found his one hundred trees planted three years ago had been relieved of most of their load, he having gathered twenty bushels of fruit from them, which he sold readily at twenty-five cents per gallon. His one hundred trees cover a little less than one-quarter acre. At Mr. Johnson's we found he had
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