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Illinois to Arkansas, in its middle region ranging so far east as eastern 

 Kentucky and Tennessee, and possibly to Marylaad, and in the southwest 

 spreading over Texas. 



This species does not appear to have been recognized by writers upon 

 the genus, although pomologists have long regarded the varieties of it as 

 distinct from P. Americana. As it has come into prominent notice 

 through the labors of horticulturists, I take pleasure in recording the fact 

 in the name horhdana. The varieties are intermediate between the 

 Americana and Chickasaw groups, while the Miner group, which I refer 

 provisionally to this species, is anomalous in its characters. The fruits 

 lack entirely the dull-colored, compressed, thick-skinned, and meaty char- 

 acters of the Americanas, and approach very closely to the Chickasaws. 

 They are usually covered with a thin bloom, and are more or less marked 

 by small spots. They are variable in period of ripening, there being a 

 difference of no less than two months between the seasons of some of the 

 cultivated varieties. In color they range from the m-ost vivid crimson to 

 pure golden yellow. The botanical features of the species are not yet well 

 determined, and it is not impossible that more than one species is con- 

 founded in it. Some of the gross features of the species are well illustrated 

 in Fig. 3. 



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

 clearly marked types, but which I am not yet able to separate by positive 

 botanical characters. One type is characterized by thin and very smooth, 

 peach-like leaves, which are very finely and evenly serrate. It comprises 

 Cumberland, Indian Chief, Roulette, and Wild Goose. The other form 

 or type is characterized by thicker, duller, and more veiny leaves, which 

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

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

 and Wayland. It forms a transition to the Miner group (C). 



46. Clark. — A variety which I know only from the growing tree. Leaves elliptic- 

 ovate, rounded at the base and comparatively short pointed, finely serrate, the stalks 

 two-glandular. Recently introduced and said to have been found wild in Anne Arundel 

 county, Maryland. If it is really indigenous there, it greatly extends the range o. .ne 

 species. C. 



47. Cumberland.— ¥T\x\i medium, oblong, yellow, skin thin; stone rather shor«, 

 rounded at the base but somewhat pointed at the apex; flowers medium, short-stalked, 

 the calyx lobes glandular; leaves ovate, rounded at the base, long-pointed, finely serrate, 

 the stalks bearing two to several glands. Medium to late. Said to have originated in 

 Georgia, under cultivation. Introduced by Philip Scht.ey. C. 



48. Q ar field.— Yrn\i medium, round-oblong, dark red, skin thick; stone slender (twic« 

 as long as broad), prolonged at both ends; flowers medium, stalked, the calyx lobes con- 

 spicuously glandular; leaves large to very large, ovate-lanceolate, rounded at the base, 

 rather finely serrate, the stalks usually furnished with a string of glands; tree a strong 

 spreading grower. Late. C. M. Stark writes that it is unproductive in Missouri. Said 

 to have been found wild in Ohio. Introduced in 1887 by the late Leo Welz, 

 Wilmington, O. C. 



49. Golden Beauty (Fig. 12; also illustration on title-page).— Fruit medium, round- 

 ovate, deep clear yellow; skin medium thick, flesh very firm and of excellent quality; 

 semi-cling, the stone small and broad (only one-fourth larger than broad), the point very 

 short; flowers large, prominently stalked, the calyx lobes glandular; leaves narrowly 

 ovate-lanceolate and very peach-like, rather tapering at the base, thick and dull and 

 somewhat pubescent below, coarsely serrate, the stalk with very small glands. Late; 

 blooms very late. One of the best. A wild south Texan variety, introduced by George 

 ONDERDO>fK in 1874. 



Honey Drop. See Missouri Apricot, b,elow. 



50. Indian Chief.— LihTge, round, dull red, skin medium thick; flesh firm; cling, the 

 stone very broad and scarcely prolonged into a point, very rough; flower, medium. 



