52 Agkicultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N Y. 



tions at the ^Michigan Agricultural College and at Cornell, they 

 appear with the leaves in diffuse cherry-like clusters, and the 

 pedicels are longer. These latter specimens are so anomalous as 

 to lead good observers to wonder if they are not hybrids ^^'ith 

 some cherry. I have not been able to observe any constant dif- 

 ferences between these two types in foliage or fruit. I am dis- 

 posed to regard these peculiarities as variations of one variety 

 due to climate or some other local cause, for I find the same dif- 

 ferences in other varieties grown here and in the south, as in 

 Newman, Robinson and Marianna (Nos. 83, 86 and 92). I have 

 examined a number of seedlings of Wild Goose at Mr. KeiT's, and 

 while they differ from the parent in flavor and shape of fruit, 

 they are much like it in general texture and character of fniit, 

 the stones are singularly alike and the habits of the trees are 

 similar; but in some of them the leaves tend to be irregularly 

 toothed at the margins after the manner of the Wayland class. 

 It should be said that the tree from which these seedlings wve 

 grown stood beside a tree of German Prune, but it is not knovrn 

 if these plants will hybridize. 



The range of adaptability of the Wild Goose is great. It is 

 hardy in central New York, and southern Michigan, and it suc- 

 ceeds well in Georgia and Texas. The tree resembles a peach 

 tree. 



62. World Beater. — Large, round-oblong, dark red, skin medium; 

 cling; leaves medimii and long-pointed, rather dull, isomewhat 

 irregularly serrate, the stalks usually glandular. Very late. 

 Of good quality. Found wild in Tennessee. Introduced by fc^tark 

 Bros., in 1889. 



The Wild Goose type or group of plums, as a whole, appears 

 to be best suited to the middle latitudes, being grown with satis 

 faction from Illinois and Indiana, and the southern part of Michi- 

 gan and New York to Maryland, Virginia and Tennessee, and in 

 the southwest to Texas. The varieties which are most highly 

 prized are Golden Beauty, Indifm Chief, Missouri Apricot, Mort- 

 man, Wayland and Wild Goose. 



