36 Agkicultukal Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



supposed to be confined to Texas and its northern borders. It 

 certainly grows as far north, as Iowa. »The varieties known as 

 Wolf and Van Buren belong here. 



The following cultivated varieties belong to Prunus Americana: 



1. American Eagle. — Fruit and flowers unkuow^n to me. 

 Leaves rather large, the stalks glandular. Introduced in faU of 

 1889 and spring of 1890 by Osceola Nursery Co., Osceola, Mis- 

 souri. C. 



2. Beauty's Choice.— Fruit large, round-oblong, red-purple or 

 red-blue, skin medium thick; flesh firm, of high quality; cling, 

 the stones broad, flat and smooth, like those of Weaver; flowers 

 large, conspicuously stalked in large clusters, calyx lobes reflexed, 

 glandless, smooth or nearly so on the inside. Late. Originated 

 under cultivation in southern Texas by Lee Beaty. T. V. Mun!- 

 son says that it appears to be a hybrid between Prunus Ameri- 

 cana and P. domestica. Eipens at Denison, Texas, from the first 

 to the middle of August. 



3. Black Haw^k. — Known to me only from a record in Bull. 4, 

 Iowa Experiment Station, by R P. Speer (Feb., 1889), in whi'^h 

 "a nameless variety found in Black Hawk county, and a very 

 large and beautiful free-stone plum, which was furnished by Mr. 

 Slater of Story county," was tested as to culinary qualities in 

 comparison with Miner, Weaver, Bassett, Rollingstone, Moreman, 

 Wolf, De Soto and Maquoketa. " The decision of all who tasted' 

 the same was that the Maquoketa and Black Hawk plums were 

 equally good and much better than any of the other kinds except 

 the De Soto, which was marked good, but second in quality. The 

 skins on the ISIaquoketa and Black Hawk plums were so thin that 

 they disappeared almost entirely while being cooked." I do not 

 know that the variety has been introduced." Presumably P. 

 Americana. 



4. Brainerd, in cultivation in IMinnesota (O. M. Lord), probably 

 belongs to this species. 



5. Cheney. — Fruit large to very large, round-oblong, scarcely 

 flattened, dull purplish red, skin thick; flesh flrai and sweet, good 

 to very good; cling, the stone very flat and smooth with rather 



