48 AGRICUi^TURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, IXHACA, N. Y. 



In this group B, as I have here constituted it, there are two 

 more or less cleiwly marked types, but which I am not yet able to 

 separate by positive botanical characters. One tyi>e is ^Juiracter- 

 ized by thin and very smooth peach-like leaves whicli are very 

 finel\' and evenly serrate. It compias*?** (Jhimberlaud, Indian 

 Cliief, Roulette and Wild Grooise. The other fonn or type is 

 characterized by thickei", duller and more veiny leaves, ^^•llich are 

 more coarsely and more or less irregularly' serrate. This includes 

 Golden Beauty, Kanawha, Moreman, Reed, Sucker State, World 

 Beater and Way land. It forms a transition to the Miner group 

 (C). 



40. Clark. — A variety which I know only from the growing 

 tre(\ Leaves eJliptic-ovate, rounded at the base and compara- 

 ti^ely short pointed, finely serrate, the stalks tix\'o-glandnlar. 

 Recently introduced and said to have been found ^\ild in Anne 

 Arundel county, Maryland. If it is reall^• Indigenous there, it 

 greatly extends the range of the si>ecies. C. 



47. Cumberland. — Finiit medium, oblong, yellow, skin thin; 

 stone rather short, rounded at the base but somewhat pointed at 

 the apex; flowers medium, short-stalked, the calyx lobes glandu- 

 lar; leaves OA'ate, roimded at the base, long-])ointed, finely ser- 

 rate, the stalks bearing two to several glands. Medium to late. 

 Said to have originated in Greorgia, under cultivation. Introduced 

 by I»hnip Schley. C. 



48. Grarfield. — Fruit medium, round-oblong, dark red, skin 

 thick; stone slender (twice as hmg as broad), prolongi'd at both 

 ends; flowers medium, stalked, the calA-x lolVes cKmsiyicuoiLsly 

 glandular; leaves large to very large, ovate-lanceolate, rounded 

 at the base, rathei* finely serrate, the stallcs usually furnished 

 with a string of glan<ls; tree a strong spreading growei'. I^vte. 

 C. ^r. Stark writes that it is imprmluctivc in Missoun. Said to 

 have been found wild in Ohio. Inti'oduced in 1887 by the late 

 Lt-o Welz Washington, O. C. 



40. Golden Beauty (Fig. 12; also illustration on page 27). — 

 Fruit medium, roimd-ovate, dee^p clear yellow, skin medium 

 thick; flesh vei-y firm and of excellent quality; semi-cling, tlie 



