"W. F. B.," says: "If any disinterested person has fruited Kelsey's Japan Plum, I would like a full report of it. If it will bear freely when the curculio destroys the European varieties and the quality compares favorably with them, I would like to graft some large trees, but if it is, like the American varieties, considered good because we cannot raise better, I do not care to take much trouble about it".

[This plum is equal in quality to any of the best of the European race. Like them, it will be attacked by curculio, and like them, it will be a very desirable kind to grow if the best modern methods of shaking or jarring the trees for the capture of the insect, be persisted in. - Ed. G. M].