It never fails of a crop with us.

2. Sua Or Early Purple?

Ripens the 8th of June, and is with us the earliest of cultivated plums. Fruit - small roundish; skin - brownish purple, (color of the Columbia,) with a scanty light colored bloom. Flesh - greenish yellow, sweet, juicy, and parts freely from the stone; highly perfumed. This nice little plum was, I believe, first introduced here by some grafts received from Germany. Has now borne some three years. Maturing so early, it is one of the most valuable. I do not find any description in the books with which it coincides. It does not rot.

3. Wilde's

Fruit - size of Imperial Gage, oval oblong; skin, rather thick, yellow or greenish yellow, with a white bloom. Flesh - yellowish green, pretty' firm, dry, sweet, and adheres to the stone. Tree * good bearer. In 1848 we considered this the best early plum; since then the Sea plum and Prince's Yellow Gage have come into bearing, and we now consider it as merely a good bearer of fair quality, not often affected with rot. Raised by Mr. Camack from a stone brought from Italy by B. H. Wilde. Ripe Jane 15th.

4. Prince's Yellow Gage

Received here under name of the Harvest Gage - ripe June 15th. It proves with us one of the very best. The tree is very productive and the fruit lasts a long time, ripening gradually for nearly a month. As it comes early in the season, while good fruit is scarce, is pretty free from rot and lasts so long - bearing an abundant crop of fruit of the best quality, sweet, juicy, and most agreeably flavored, I think it may be considered the most desirable plum here cultivated at present. Will supercede Wilde's.

5. Brevoort's Pubpls

Ripe June 18th. Bore a lair crop of tolerably good plums, but not as good as the next, which ripens at the same time.

6. Italian Damask

Bipe June 18th, a fortnight earlier than last year. Tree productive - fruit sweet and fine flavored, worthy of cultivation, not subject to rot.

7. Washington

June 20th begins to ripen. A large and handsome plum, and that is ail the good we can say of it. The tree does not bear very well, and the fruit is dry and flavorless. This may be owing to the season, but, so Jar, upon the whole, it is not worth raising. It is much inferior to the Horse plum in quality.

8. Columbia

Ripens June 20th. This magnificent plum can hardly be praised too highly. It is large and beautiful - not much subject to rot, of excellent quality and sufficiently productive. Tree hardy. ' Should be in every garden.

9. Duane's Purple

June 25th begins to ripen. A large fine looking fruit, very productive and fruit pretty good, with a pleasant acidity, quite juicy, somewhat subject to rot, but worthy of cultivation.

10. Knight's Large Green Drying

Ripens last of June - bears pretty well and not much subject to rot, but is too dry and lacks sweetness. It is a very insipid plum - not worth cultivating.

11. Bingham

Ripe July 1st. One of the finest plums here grown, large, juicy, sweet, and excellent. Tree a fine grower and bears well. Indispensable.

12. Blbbkbb's Gage

Ripe July 1st, twenty-five days earlier than last year. Ah excellent plum, but not quite so valuable as Prince's Yellow or the Imperial Gage; worth cultivating.

13. Elfrey

Ripe July" 1st. You may be surprised to see the high opinion we have of the Elfrey. In this section it is a plum of high merit. In this opinion all who raise it here concur. Though the fruit is scarcely of medium size, this is more than compensated by its abundant crops. The fruit of the Elfrey with us is far from being dry. It indeed is almost as sweet and juicy as the Imperial Gage itself. Nothing but frost ever prevents its bearing a full crop of delicious fruit. It is the best flavored blue plum we have, and one of the best six varieties here cultivated. It rots a little, but there is always an abundance of good fruit in spite of rot or curculio. Tree thrifty and hardy. Indispensable.

14. Imperial Gage

This is, to my taste, the most delicious plum here cultivated. The Yellow Gage and Elfrey rank next m this respect. Though I have placed the Yellow Gage as the first in all respects, it is from its season only. Ripe July 1st, and the fruit so gradually matures, that it lasts about a month. Is not much affected with the cureulio, but rots considerably. Fruit very juicy and luscious, almost too sugary. A great bearer, and a fine hardy tree. Indispensable.

15. Horse Plum

Ripe 1st of July. A hardy productive plum not much liable to docay, but worth cultivating only for culinary uses, for which the Red Magnum Bonum and Duane's Purple, are much batter.

16. St. Catharine

Ripe about July 5. This is probably the true name of a plum received here as the French Prune. It proves a pretty good plum tree, hardy and prolific. Flesh firm, rich and good flavored, but somewhat dry.

17. Diamond

Ripe July 5th. Tree productive and hardy. Fruit of the largest size, but coarse and flavorless. Would do for the kitchen - but rots worse than any other variety except Smith's Orleans; not worth growing.

18. Manning's Long Blue Prune

Ripe July 5. A pretty good bearer. Fruit large, handsome, and of fair quality. Will do to swell a collection, but would not probably get stolen where the Imperial Gage was abundant. Not very liable to rot.

19.' Smith's Orleans

July 5th begins to ripen. A great bearer, but extremely liable to rot. Fruit pretty good, and in good seasons it would be a profitable plum.

20. Gen. Hand

Ripens July 8. .Large and handsome, but the tree is not a good bearer with us. The fruit, too, we consider rather indifferent. Not worth cultivating.

21. Semiana Of Boston

Bears a fair crop of harsh acid fruit, and is about the poorest plum we have. Ripe July 8.

22. German Prune

Ripe about July 8. The tree is hardy, and bears exceedingly well, but the fruit is dry and indifferent. If it will make good prunes, might be worth cultivating, but not for the table.

23. Red Magnum Bonum

Ripe July 10. The tree is a good grower and bearer - fruit very large and handsome; juicy and agreeably sub-acid. A fair plum for the table, and makes the very best of preserves. Not much subject to rot, and upon the whole, indispensable.

24. Blue Plum

July 15. This is the not very definite name borne by a plum very well known in this vicinity. Fruit medium size, roundish, scarcely oval; suture very obscure; skin dark blue, with a fine light blue bloom; stalk three-eighths of an inch long, inserted in a shallow cavity; flesh yellowish green, juicy, sweet, and refreshing - adheres to the stone; shoots smooth; leaves rather small. A very pleasant and agreeable plum, and the tree is a fine bearer. It is generally propagated by suckers. Does not rot.

25. Jefferson

July 20th it was ripe this year; last season the 7th of August. We are a little disappointed in the quality of this plum, as it is somewhat inferior to the El-frey, Yellow and Imperial Gages, Blue Plum and Columbia. It lacks juiciness and flavor; but then it has merits which will always render it one of the most desirable of plums. It is of the largest size, and the handsomest of all plums. The tree bears abundantly, fruit hangs on a long time, and it is almost the only plum that is perfectly free from decay. It seems so far to defy the rot. It is also the latest plum that with us has come into bearing; and in spite of its defects, is absolutely indispensable, even in a collection of no more than three or four varieties.

A few other plums have borne here, but are not fully tested. The Green Gage died just as it commenced bearing. Huling's Superb, Lawrence's Favorite, Coe's Golden Drop and Sharp's Emperor, were invoiced, but nothing about the trees corresponded thereto, except the tallies. So of some others. A number of plums not mentioned, have not yet come into bearing here.

From the above list, which includes all that we can speak of with confidence, the most desirable three varieties that can be selected for a succession, are Prince's Yellow Gage, Imperial Gage, and Jefferson. . For best six, add Sea, Elfrey, (or Columbia,) and Red Magnum Bonum, for preserves.

Add to these Chickasaw, Bingham, Blue Plum, Italian Damask, Blocker's Gage, Duane's Purple, and St. Catharine, for drying, and you hare all that are desirable.

It is proper to add that these notes are not the result of my own observations, solely. In collecting material. I have been greatly indebted to Dr. Ward and Dr. CAMAK,of this place, both for the results of their larger experience, and for their kindness in supplying specimens of nearly everything which for four years past, has fruited in their fine collections.

Enclosed you will find an outline of the Horse Apple, which is unusually fine this year. In flavor and consistence it is more like the Rhode Island Greening than any other variety in my knowledge. It is a good cider apple, also.

A lady subscriber of this place has the Fastolff Raspberry, of which the flavor is very well, but of the little drupes or carpels which compose the berry, only three or four swell to each berry; the rest dry up and are abortive. The plants thrive well enough. Can this infertility be cured, and how? If not, the variety is worthless.

Two errors in the July number need correction. To destroy the wooly aphis, I directed the whole tree to be washed in soap-suds - not worked - which is nonsense. Again, the stem of the Red June Apple, is from one-half to three-fourths of an inch long, and not as printed, from one and a~half to three-fourths, which is incorrect.

Yours very truly, Wm. N. White.

Athens, Ga , July 26,1852.

The Horse Apple. Average size.