76 Agkicultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



those of the wild beach plum. Medium to late, ripening in late 

 August in eastern Maryland. Quality poor. Introduced about 

 twenty years ago, by Wm. F. Bassett, Haminonton, N. J., who 

 bought the original tree of a man who found it in the neighbor- 

 hood. It works well upon the Wild Goose, and Mr. Bassett writes 

 me that he has a tree on such roots which is fifteen feet high. 

 It Avas largely brought to notice through the efforts of the Kujisou 

 nurseries, where it was worked upon the myi'obalan plum and 



Figure 10.— Bassett's American. Full size. 



the peach. I have seen a vigorous, large tree at Mr. Kerr's 

 grafted upon the Richland, which is Prunus domestica. Mr. Kerr 

 also finds that it grows upon the Chickasaws. The variety appears 

 to differ from the wild beach plum only in size. 



Gr. Prunus subcordata, the wild plum of the Pacific coast, 

 was introduced to cultivation in 1889, by T. V. Munson (see Amuils 

 Hort. 1889, 104; 1891, 235). It is a straggling, much branched 

 shrub growing from three to ten feet high. It has subcordate 

 roundish or round-ovate tomentose leaves and large i)edice]led 

 Jlowera which appear with the leaves. The red fruit reaches 

 three-fourths inch long. It is eaten by Indians and whites. Its 

 value in cultivation is yet to be determined. 



n. Hybrids. — It is not known, to AAhat extent the native 

 species of plums hybridize with each other or with foreign species, 

 and nearly all the definite attempts at crossing are so recent that 



