4:2 Agriodltueal Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



and spotted pink-purple; skin vqry thick; :iesli firm, sweet and 

 excellent; semi-cling; stone nearly cii'cular, ratlier Hat, sharp on 

 the back edge, nearly smooth; Howers large, long-stalked; the 

 calyx lobes large and rarely somewhat glandular, hairy <m the 

 inside; leaves large and firm, comparatively smooth; stalks either 

 glandular or glandless. Medium season, coming in just beiore 

 De Soto. One of the leading varieties. Found over thirty years 

 ago on the bank of the Rollingstone creek, Winona county, Minn., 

 by O. M. Lord, and by him mtroduced some ten years ago. Pro- 

 fessor L. H. Pammel, of the Iowa Agricultural College, writes 

 me that this variety is reported as the common plum along creeks 

 at Dysart, Iowa. G. 



Mr. Lord has raised many pure seedlings of the Kolliugsione, 

 of which the Late Eollingstone (see iso. ^0) is one. ^'Several 

 years ago," he writes, " I cut out of my grounds ail ^-arieti^s of 

 native plums, except the Eollingstone. The object was to per- 

 petuate the tree by seeds true to name by preventing all crossing. 

 Some of the seedlings can not be distinguished by their loliage 

 or flowers, but none of them bear as good fruit as ilie ])arent. 

 JSome aie later and some earlier." The variety is figured by 

 Professor S. B. Green in Bull. 10, Minn Exp. Sta. 



30. Speer. — Medium, oblong, mottled orange and red, skin 

 medium; fiesh firm and sweet; semi-cling, stone broad, convex, 

 ends blunt, slightly roughened; leaves medium, nearly sinoolh, 

 stalks glandular. Iowa seedling, by J. A. Speer. 



37. Van Buren (Prunus Americana var. mollis).-— Large, round- 

 oblong, purple-red, skin thick; free; leaves medium, densely white 

 pubescent beneath and on the stalks, as wed as the young 

 growth; stalks glandular. Medium season. The pubescent is 

 most marked on young shoots. An Iowa wild variety, intro- 

 duced by J. Thacher. 



38. Wazata.— Medium or even small, round, dull red, thick 

 skin; cling; leaves medium, pubescent beneatli; tlie glands smjill 

 or none. Medium to late. C. M. Stark writes that it has no 

 value in Missouri. Wild Minnesota variety, introduced by J'eter 

 M. Gideon and W. F. Heikes. 



