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40. Wier^s Large Red. — "A round plum as large as Wild 

 Goose and better in quality, excellent for cooking; ripening 

 last half of September." — B. O. Curtis, Paris, III. Leaves 

 medium, firm, smooth or very nearly so, the stalk glandular. 

 D. B. WiER, Illinois. 



41. Wild iiose.— "Large, round, yellow-blush, skin medium; 

 flesh firm; cling. Early. A Minnesota wild variety, not prop- 

 agated for sale, but deserving to be." — Sias. Introduced in 

 1880 by A. W. Sias. Presumably P. Americana. 



42. Wolf {Prunus Americana var. mollis). Fig. 2. — Large 

 round, yellow blotched with red, skin thick; flesh firm, meaty 

 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 thf* young shoots, prominently 

 pubescent and often glaucose, especially on the 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 market. The illustration shows a 

 medium sized specimen. Often known as Wolf Free. Origin- 

 ated on the farm of D. B. Wolf, Wapello county, Iowa, nearly 

 forty years ago, from pits said to have been taken from wild 

 trees in the woods. C. \ 



43. Wyant. — -Large, round-oblong, purple-red, skin; thick; Fia.2.—Wolf. 



flesh firm; free; leaves medium, slightly pubescent, the glands small. Found wild in 

 northern Iowa by Mr. Wyant; introduced by Professor J. L. Budd. C. 



44. Yellow Stveet.— Medium, round-oblong, and flattened, ground color orange, 

 mottled and splashed with pink-purple; skin thin; free, the stone nearly circular, rather 

 flat, and somewhat sharp on the back, rough. Minnesota? C. 



45. Yelloiv Yosemife. — I am not acquainted with the fruit of this variety, but I am 

 told by reliable growers that it is identical with Purple Yosemite. 



The Americana group succeeds best, on the whole, in the northern states 

 of the Mississippi valley, and it is the only one which is able to withstand 

 the climates of the northernmost limits of the native plum belt, as Wiscon- 

 sin, Minnesota, and Iowa. There are some varieties, however, which 

 succeed so far south as Texas. In the Atlantic states the varieties are not 

 grown far south. At Mr. Kerr's place, on the Chesapeake peninsula, the 

 varieties are likely to be unproductive, or short lived, and are much injured 

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

 him, among which I recall Wolf, Purple Yosemite, and Kickapoo. The 

 greatest profitable range of the group, however, is confined somewhat 

 closely to the two or three northernmost tiers of states. The varieties 

 which are most highly prized are Cheney, Deep Creek, De Soto, Forest 

 Garden, Itaska, Louisa, Purple Yosemite, Quaker, Rollingstone, Weaver," 

 and Wolf. 



B. The Wild Goose Geoup. — {Prumis hortulana, L. H. Batley, 

 Garden, and Forest, v. 90, [1892]). This, perhaps the most important 

 group of native plums, includes varieties characterized by strong, wide- 

 spreading growth and mostly smooth twigs, a firm, juicy, bright-colored, 

 thin-skinned fruit which is never flattened, a cliu<iing, turgid, compara- 

 tively small, rough stone, which is sometimes prolonged at the ends, but is 

 never conspicuously wing-margined, and by comparatively thin and firm, 

 shining, smooth, flat, more or less peach-like, ovate-lanceolate, or ovate, 

 long-pointed leaves, which are mostly closely and obtusely glandular- 

 serrate, and the stalks of which are usually glandular. Prunus hortulana 

 in the wild state appears to follow the Mississippi river from northern 



