NEW PLUM TREE
FRUIT TWICE FORMER SIZE. VANCOUVER. A new plum tree has been developed here by hybridizing methods which grow fruit twice the size of the normal plum, has fine keeping qualities and is of excellent dessert quality. The new plum, produced by Carmine Magi io, a 75-year-old resident of Nelson near here, has now been grown on a commercial basis and has already attracted world-wide notice. The buyer of a large chain store of English restaurants investigated the new plum and has contracted for both the 1938 and 1939 crop. He also purchased five young trees that were available and shipped them to England where they will be planted in the famous Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, London. The five young plum trees of the new strain were shipped across Canada by TransCanada air liner in time to catch a fast vessel across the Atlantic, to enable their being replanted at the earliest possible moment.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1938, Page 3
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157NEW PLUM TREE Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1938, Page 3
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