. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. most excel-lent fruits, these figures do not make afavorable showing of the enterprise andpush of our people, and that the eighteenmillion dollars worth of fruits now im-ported should all or for the most part beproduced at home, also that our exportsshould be largely increased. The latter will undoubtedly be the all the orchards and vineyards, etc.,now planted, wiU be in full fruiting, weshall have vastly more fruit and fruit pro- 236 POPULAR GARDENING. September, ducts to sp
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. most excel-lent fruits, these figures do not make afavorable showing of the enterprise andpush of our people, and that the eighteenmillion dollars worth of fruits now im-ported should all or for the most part beproduced at home, also that our exportsshould be largely increased. The latter will undoubtedly be the all the orchards and vineyards, etc.,now planted, wiU be in full fruiting, weshall have vastly more fruit and fruit pro- 236 POPULAR GARDENING. September, ducts to spare for willing buyers in Europeand elsewhere than we have had heretofore,and more to consume at home. But ourpeople are adept scholars in the use offruits, and the consumption, per capita,Beems to be increasing so fast, that we be-lieve the imports will not fall off for sometime to come, especially since they consistso largely of Bananas, of which we produceno appreciable amoiint, and which havenow become almost a daily necessity of thepeople of the United the whole we are to be congratulated. JAPAN PLUM, HATTONKIN No. 2, NATURAL SIZE for our facilities to produce, and still morefor our unexcelled capacity and willingnessto consume fruits. The effects of fruit-eating upon a nationas well as upon the Individual, can only befavorable and desirable. The Japanese Plums. J. L. NORMAND, LA. I forward to your address samples of theHattonkin No. 2 Plum, There is some con-fusion in the nomenclature of the .JapanesePlums. I find myself with three differentkinds of Hattonkins, and three kinds ofBotans. Have now some thirty differentvarieties of oriental Plums on my experi-ment grounds, and will fruit most of themthis present season. Some of them are a marvel of prolificacy,large size and exquisite flavor, ripening insuccession here in central Louisiana fromthe 10th day of May to the first of September,thus giving us a succession of lusciousPlums for over three months. The South
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