WILD GOOSE PLUM (Prunus hortulana, Bailey). A natural hybrid between the wild red plum and the Chickasaw; sup posed to have originated in Kentucky, and now growing wild from Maryland to Texas, as a straight, well-built, thornless tree, with thin, oblong, dark green leaves, shining above, pale beneath. The fruits often 1 inch in diameter, globose, thick-skinned, juicy, a better fruit than either of its parents. From this comparatively recent derivative of a cross between two wild plums have been developed two important types of garden plums: the northern Miner group, and the southern Wayland group. These are far better than the European
varieties, like the Damsons and Green Gages, in the South and on the prairies. Failure attends the gardener who would plant these Old World plums anywhere except in the North eastern States or on the Pacific Slope.