38 Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



middle of September. A good sort for home use, but does not 

 ship well unless picked before ripe. Tree grows forked and is apt 

 to split. Said not to succeed well east of Illinois. Taken from 

 the woods at Cedar Eapids, Iowa, by Thomas Hare, and introduced 

 by H. C. Raymond, of the Forest Garden nursei-ies. Council Bluffs, 

 about 1862. Figured in Bull. 5, Minn. Exp. Sta,, by Prof. S. B. 

 Green. 



11. Gaylord. — Fruit large, round-oblong and slightly flattened, 

 deeply mottled red over a ground of orange, skin rather thick; flesh 

 pulpy and sweet; stone moderate cling, broad and rather flat, 

 pointed, sharp-edged on the back, somewhat roughened; leaves 

 rather broad, somewhat pubescent below, glandular. Medium 

 season. Inti-oduced recently by Edson Gaylord, iNlora Springs, 

 Iowa. 



12. Harrison's Peach.^ — Medium si2iei, round-oblong, dull red 

 skin thick; stone free; leaves medium, rather thick and pubes- 

 cent, the glands large. Medimn season. Xot widely dissemi- 

 nated apparently. Minnesota, a wild variety. C. 



13. Hawkoye. — Large to very lai-ge, round-oblong, pui-ple-red, 

 skin thick; flesh firm and good; stone cling; leaves medium flim, 

 very smooth for the species, stalks glandulai'. Medium season. 



Originated in Iowa under cultivation. Inlti'oduced by H. A. 

 Terry, Crescent City, Iowa, 1878. Specimens from the Michigan 

 Agricultural College evidently belong to Prunas angustifolia, the 

 Chickasaw type. G. 



14. Ida/. — I know this only from a description submitted by D. 

 B. Wier, the originator: "Medium size, round, yellow nearly cov- 

 ered with dull red; flesh firm, salmon-color, very sweet; free- 

 stone; leaves very downy and leathery; tree thorny, exceedingly 

 sprawling. The fruit is acid when cooked, but dries sweet." Said 

 by Mr. Wier to be pure P. Americana. Illinois. 



15. Illinois Ironclad. — F^it very large, oblong, dark red, thick 

 skin; flesh firm; cling; leaves medium, pubescent, glands small or 

 absent. Medium season. Said to be one of the best native plums. 

 Wild variety from Illinois, introduced in 1890 by Stark Bros., 

 Louisiana, Mo. C. 



