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Title: Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927
Subjects: Botany Gardening Forests and forestry
Publisher: New York : The Garden and forest publishing co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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these native Plums there is somethingvaluable. Their endurance, productiveness and perfect hardi-ness should and must be made useful to us, and we have noright to rest or flag in our efforts until we have an orchard ofnative Plums that shall command in market two to four dollarsper bushel, and yield crops as abundant and frequent as the wildones in our thickets now do. About the possibility of thisthere is very little doubt. This was written but fourteenyears ago, and it seems well to add that this result has alreadybeen attained. During a visit to Mr. O. M. Lord, of Minne-sota City, Minnesota, early in September last, I saw plumssold from his native plum-orchard at sixty-five cents for theordinary peach-basket, holding about a peck, while the com-mon native plums, gathered indiscriminately from the wildthickets, were selling at from forty to sixty cents per bushel. What can be said of the quality of the best native plums ?This question involves some difficulty, since doubts have been
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Fig. 81.—The California Buckeye (Msculus Californica).—See page 517. Cultural Department. The Present Status of Native Plum Culture. THE dearth of hardy fruits in the north-west is naturallydirecting attention to the native Plum. In the northernspecies of this fruit, the Prunus Americana, is found a treethat, when properly grown, needs not fear frozen mercury orthe brightest summer or winter suns, and that suffers com-paratively little from fungal diseases. The pioneers of thenorth-western states, in common with those of the east, gen-erally regarded the native Plum as of too little value for cul-ture. But when sad experience at length demonstrated thatthe finer European Plums are unable to endure the severe cli-matic conditions of these states, the better native Plums werefound far preferable to none, and the thickets where this fruitstill abounded began to receive protection. Occasionally aspecially meritorious tree, or clump of trees—for their sucker-ing tendency often caused

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