Show JAPANESE PLUM JS IS POPULAR many of these varieties are arc earliest on market Marke tand and sell readily at good prices by C M Sn plums of the japanese variety are popular with most moat growers particularly in the east eabe because they are hardy and come on early many of these are the earliest in the market and na as they are always or of good color either aberry reds reda or light yellows they sell readily and bring good prices they will grow well on almost any kind of decent sail boll and do not need to lo be particularly coddled although they should have all the cire care that any good rutt fruit tree deserves the japanese P plum lum differs from the domestic varieties in that its leaves are longer thinner and smoother and it has a greater tendency to produce lateral fruit buds on the annual growth its fruit Is mostly short round and plump the japanese plum Is liable to injury from curcillo cur cullo and black knot than the domestic vati varieties epes |