236 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



dots numerous, small, russet, inconspicuous, clustered about the apex; stem medium 

 in thickness and length, pubescent, adhering well to the fruit; skin thin, tender, slightly 

 astringent, separating readily; flesh greenish-yellow changing to light golden-yellow, 

 dry, firm but tender, sweet, mild, somewhat astringent towards the center; fair in 

 quality; stone variable in adhesion but usually clinging, large, ovate or oval, blunt 

 at the base and apex, strongly roughened and pitted; ventral suture faintly winged; 

 dorsal suture acute or lightly grooved. 



GUTHRIE LATE 



Primus doniestica 



I. Mcintosh Bk. Card. 2:532. 1855. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 919. iS6g. 3. Hogg Frtiit 

 Man. 705. 18S4. 4. Mathieu Norn. Pom. 434. 1889. 5. Rivers Cat. 1S9S. 6. .4m. Card. Mag, 

 21:173. 1900. 



Guthrie's Minette i. GtUhrie's Late Green 6. Guthrie Green 6. Guthrie's Late Green 2. 

 3, 4. Mi>ictte 2, 3, 4. Verte Tardive de Guthrie 4. 



Guthrie Late has never attained commercial importance in the United 

 States, being found only in collections ; but in England, according to Hogg, 

 it is a very fine dessert plum, rivalling the Reine Claude in quality and 

 ripening a month later. On the grounds of this institution it has failed 

 because the fruits are small, dull in color and do not keep well. Of the 

 several varieties produced from seed of Reine Claude by Charles Guthrie, 

 Taybank, Dundee, Scotland, about the middle of the last century, Guthrie 

 Late is the best known. 



Tree large, vigorous, round-topped, dense, productive; branches stocky; branch 

 lets pubescent; leaf-buds large, short, with a peculiar brush-like apex; leaves folded 

 upward, oval, 'one and seven-eighths inches wide, three and one-half inches long, thick, 

 rugose; margin crenate, eglandular or with small, dark glands; petiole thick, glandless 

 or with from one to four globose glands; blooming season short; flowers appearing 

 after the leaves, one inch across, white tinged with yellow at the apex of the petals; 

 borne on lateral buds and spurs, singly or in pairs. 



Fruit mid-season, ripening period long; of medium size, roundish-truncate, dull 

 greenish-yellow, often irregularly splashed and striped with green, overspread with thin 

 bloom; skin thin, slightly astringent; flesh light golden-yellow, rather dry, fibrous, 

 somewhat tender, sweet, pleasant in flavor; of good quality; stone free, seven-eighths 

 inch by five-eighths inch in size, ovate or oval, medium turgid, with rough surfaces. 



HALE 



Pruiiiis triflora 

 I. Burbank Cat. 19. 1893. 2. Ibid. 1S94. 3. Cornell Sta. Bid. 106:52. 1S96. 4. Ga. Hort. 

 Soc. Rpt. XL 1897. 5- ■•!'«. Pom. Soc. Cat. 41. 1899. 6. Cormll Sta. Bui. 175:147, 148, fig. 37. 



