Premium Plums

We thitik that plum culture is on the gain in Michigan, especially on the Michigan lake sliore wliere carriage by water to the Chicago market is accessible and attainable. The plum is a fruit that neaiiy always briaga a profitable price to the grocer. We notice 'liat at the exhibition of the State Pomológica] Society the Lombard was awarded flrst and second premiums as the best single variety, and the third to Blecker's Gage. For'the most valuable and best grown exhibit of three varieties of plums for market these were the awards : First Premium - Germán Prune, Lombard, Coe's Golden Drop, Second Premium - Prince Englebert, Lombard, Coe's Golden Drop. It must be that these are useful and valuable varieties, and it would be well lor ;ill persons interested to take notice thereof. l'eople are so often led astray by the large, showy and attractive, lliough indifferent kinds, that it is well to rexnember the above awarda wlioi you ure looking lor tlie kind to plant. Lombard and Coe's Golden Drop areamongplums wliat the Concord and Delaware are among grapte.