How strikingly the modern triumph over the one time irresistible curculio is illustrated, anyone can see by the fruit stands and fruit stores which exhibit plums in profusion everywhere. Scarcely ten years ago hundreds of people could not tell a plum from a meteorite. Ellwanger & Barry were about the only ones who kept people in mind that there was such a fruit, by exhibiting a few at horticultural shows. A pleasant reminder of how popular a fruit it has become, is now before us in the shape of a basket of Reine Claudes from Mr. Willard, of Geneva, N. Y. Only think of a half bushel of plums !