_Black Imperial_ 5, 14. _Blue Imperial_ 5, 14, 19, 20. _Bradshaw_ 9, 14. Grosse Schwarze Kaiser Pflaume 12. _Hart Prune_ 17. Large Black Imperial 8, 14, 18. _Large Black Imperial_ 2, 3, 12. _Mooney_ 9, 17. Niagara 7, 9, 10, 11. _Niagara_ 13, 15, 17, ?19, 20, ?22, 23. Bradshaw leads all other plums in number of trees in New York, according to a survey of the leading orchards made in the preparation of _The Plums of New York_. A study of the variety does not justify this popularity. The trees grow rather slowly and are slow in coming into bearing; the fruit is not especially high in quality and in many regions is attacked by brown-rot too freely for profitable orchard culture. To offset these faults the trees are large and well formed, bear regularly and heavily, are hardy, robust and healthy, the best of recommendations, and the plums are large, attractive in appearance and keep and ship well especially if picked a little green. The variety, curiously enough, is not nearly as badly attacked by San José scale as other plums. Probably one of the reasons why Bradshaw is so largely grown in New York is that it is easily handled in the nursery and quickly makes a very good nursery tree. Bradshaw does not deserve the high place it holds with plum-growers, and must give way sooner or later to better varieties for commercial orchards. The value of the crop is greatly lessened in New York because it ripens in the midst of the peach season. Unfortunately, the origin of this plum is not known. The Europeans and some Americans have held that it came from America but, since it is identical with the Large Black Imperial, it must be of foreign origin. It was named by C. M. Hovey in 1846, and was described in his _Magazine of Horticulture_ with the following explanation: “For the want of a name to distinguish a very large and excellent plum, exhibited for three or four years in succession, by E. E. Bradshaw, Esq., Charlestown, we have called it the Bradshaw plum.” Barry, in 1855, states in the _Horticulturist_ that he “received it from Wm. Kenrick, a nurseryman in Newton, Massachusetts, under the name of Large Black Imperial; but as it has been described in _Hovey’s Magazine_ as Bradshaw, we have adopted that name in our catalog.” Though the name Bradshaw is incorrect according to the rule of priority, it would now cause too much confusion to change it.