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16. Zona. — Known to me only from description of the originator, 

 D. B. Wier: " Fruit" large, ol)long, dull yellow with red cheek, 

 skin medium thick; flesh fla'm, yellow and sweet; stone free, long 

 and much flattened, ^dth a sharp border on the hack; leaves very 

 large; tree strong and upright, the growth smooth. Mediom 

 season." Said by ]Mi'. Wier to be pure P, Americana, the seed com- 

 ing fi'om a wild bush in southwestern Wisconsin. 



17. Itaska. — Frait mediimi, obloug, dull pui^ple-red, skin thick; 

 fle«h firm, of fair quality; cling; flowers small and sessile, pinkish, 

 the calyx lobes somewhat glandular, and smooth within; leaves 

 thick and broad, stalks either glandular or glandless; tree a very 

 short, stocky and thick grower, the short joints giving the pinkish 

 bloom a stidkingly massed effect. Medium season. One of the 

 most distinct in habit. Muinesota. Introduced by P. M. Grideon, 

 Excelsior, Mnn., and by W. F. Heikes. 



18. Kickapoo. — ]\Iedium, round-oblong, blotched red, thick 

 skin; flesh firm; stone cling, convex on the sides, long, roughish; 

 flowers 'small and sessile or nearly so, calyx lobes minutely glan- 

 dular and smooth or nearly so within; leaves rather small, Diir- 

 roAV, long-pointed, veiy sharpl}- toothed, pubescent below, gland- 

 less or occasionally a leaf with small glands; tree a straggling 

 grower, veiy pTOliflc. Medium season. Appears to be much 

 attacked by shot-hole fungus. 



19. Kopp, introduced by O. M. Lord, Minnesota, is i)robably P. 

 Americana. 



20. Late Rollingstone. — Very like Eollingstone (No. 35) of 

 which it is a seedling, but three weeks late-r, pulp not so firm, and 

 skin thicker. O. ]M. Lord, Minnesota, 



21. Le Due. — Medium, round and flattened, orange spotted with 

 red, skin thiD.; flesh pulpy and sweet; a moderate cling, the stone 

 rather broad with convex sides, rounded at the ends, slightly 

 rodghened. IMedium season. A wild variety from Hastings, 

 Minn., introduced by W. G. Le Due. G. 



22. Little Seedling. — A small red plum with small convex 

 roughish cherry-like stone, and narrow, rather finely serrate 

 leaves, and glands very small or none. Charles Luedloff, Carver, 

 Miim. 



