The Cultivated jNative Plums and Chebbies. 75 



em States; and tMs peculiarity I have observed in mjrobalan, 

 and also, as previously recorded, in Wild (joose, iiewman and 

 Kobinson. 



93. Hattie. — Medium, round-oblong, red; cling, the stone 

 uiucb like tbat ot Marianna in shape, but rather more pointed 

 and neai'lj smooth; howers small and clustered, the calyx lobes 

 small ana erect; leaves small, snort-oblong, or ovate-oblong, some- 

 what condupiicate, auil and nrm, hnely serrate, the stailis gland- 

 less; branches stid: and conspicuously rough or waity. iiiaiiy, 

 below medium iu quality. The history of this plum i am unable 

 to U'ace. in some respects it closely resembles the Oinckasaws, 

 but i can not escape the conviction that it is paitly inyrobaian. ± 

 nave seen the same rough shoots in the myrooaian plum. O. 



jb'. Ihe Beach Tlum. — (I'runus maritima, Vvangenheim [lT6ijj. 

 T ig. y. — ihe beach plum is a stragglmg more or less aecumbent 

 Dusn, reachmg tiiree to six or even twelve teet in heignt, growing 

 m tue sanus ol the sea-coast iroin J\ew Brunswick to Vuginia, 

 ana pernups extendmg tarther towards the soutnwest." The 

 novvers are ratner large lor ihe size oi tne plant, and ai'e borne 

 on prominent stalks m clusters. Tne Iruit, in the best loruis, 

 IS auout a hail inch in uiameter (_see Tig. Uj, ana is Ueep, duii 

 purpie wnen npe, ana coverea with a Uense blouin; the nesn is 

 brittle, sweet ana juicy, entu-ely tiee irom the stone; the skm 

 IS thick ana lougn, ana usually leaves an acria taste m the mouth 

 when the Iruit is eaten. Lpon the Jersey coast the truit is ripe 

 the middle of August. Prunus maiitima is in cultivation is 

 an ornamental plant, it being very showy when in bloom and iuter- 

 esting in fruit. It succeeds well under cidtivation in the interior 

 States. As a fruit plant it has given rise to but one variety: 



94. Bassetts American (Fig. 10). — Small (about three-fourths 

 of an inch in diameter), roimd or slightly round-oblate, dull I'ed; 

 skin medium thick; free-stone, the stone nearly cii-cidar in out- 

 Une with a very short point or even pointless, thin upon the 

 front edge, slightly rough; leaves a fourth or third larger than 



* Prunus maritima has been found recently near the head of Lake Michigan. It is supposed 

 to have been introduced. 



