46 Agricultukal Experiment Station, Ithaoa, N. Y. 



and good; perfectly free, the stone circular in outline, with a 

 tendency to taper towards the apex, rather flat, the wing or 

 border pronounced, smooth; flowers medium, short-stalked, the 

 calyx lobes glandular and hairy inside; leaves broad and thick, 

 the blades and stalks, as well as the young shoots, prominimtly 

 pubescent and often glaucous, especially on ihe young growth, 

 the leaf stalks bearing no glands, or only small ones; tree a stout, 

 good grower, prolific. Medium season. One of the best, both 

 for home use and the market. The illustration shows a medium 

 sized specmien. Often known as Wolf Free. Originated on 

 the farm of D. B. Wolf, Wapello county, Iowa, nearly forty years 

 ago, froon pits said to have been taken from wild trees in the 

 woods. 0. 



43. Wyant. — La.rge, round-oblong, purple-red, sldn thick; flesh 

 firm; free; leaves medium, slightly pubescent, the glands small. 

 Found wild in northem Iowa by IVIr. Wj^ant; introduced by Pro- 

 fessor J. L. Budd. C. 



44. Yellow Sweet. — Medium, round-oblong and flattened, ground 

 color orange mottled and splashed with pink-purple; skin thin; 

 tree, the stone nearly circular, rather flat and somewhat sharp on 

 the back, rough. Minnesota? C. 



45. Yellow Yosemite. — I am not acquainted with the fruit of 

 this variety, but I am told by reliable growere that it is identical 

 with Purple Yosemite. 



The American group succeeds best, on the whole, in the 

 northern States of the Mississippi vaUej'^, and it is the only one 

 which is able to withstand the climates of the northernmost limits 

 of the native plum belt, as Wisconsin, ^Minnesota and Iowa. There 

 are some varieties, however, which succeed so far south as Texas. 

 In the Atlantic States the varieties ai-e not grown far south. At 

 Mr. Kerr's place, on the Chesapeake peninsula, the varieties are 

 liliely to be unproductive, or short lived, and are much injured 

 by a mysterious blight; yet there are some kinds wkich grow well 

 with him, among which I recall Wolf, Purple Yosemite and Kicka- 

 poo. Tlie great profitable range of the gi'oup, ho^^•ever, is con- 

 fined somewhat closely to the two or three northernmost tiers of 



