THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 22.3 



1893 and 1894, but not to fruit-growers until 1895, ^"d then by the orig- 

 inator. The American Pomological Society placed it on their fruit catalog 

 list in 1899 as a promising variety for this region and southern California. 



Tree medium in size and vigor, round and dense-topped, hardy, usually productive; 

 branches short, stocky, dark ash-gray, with large lenticels; branchlets short, with inter- 

 nodes of medium length, greenish-red changing to dark brownish-red, dull, thinly 

 pubescent, heavily marked with scarf-skin and with few, small, inconspicuous lenticels; 

 leaf-buds small to medium, short, conical, appresscd. 



Leaves folded backward, obovate or oval, two and one-quarter inches wide, three 

 and three-quarters inches long; upper surface pubescent only along the midrib; lower 

 surface pale green, lightly pubescent on the midrib and larger veins; apex abruptly 

 pointed or acute, margin serrate or crenate, usually with small, dark glands; petiole 

 three-quarters inch long, tinged red along one side, sparingly pubescent, glandless or 

 with from one to four greenish-brown glands usually on the stalk. 



Blooming season intermediate in time and length; flowers appearing after the leaves, 

 one and three-sixteenths inches across, creamy in the buds, changing to white on opening, 

 borne in scattering clusters on short, lateral buds and spurs, singly or in pairs; pedicels 

 three-eighths inch long, thick, glabrous, greenish; calyx-tube green, campanulate, 

 glabrous or lightly pubescent; calyx-lobes broad, obtuse, pubescent on both surfaces, 

 glandular-serrate, reflexed; petals oval, somewhat erose, with short, broad claws; 

 anthers yellowish; filaments five-sixteenths inch long; pistil glabrous, longer than the 

 stamens. 



Fruit mid-season, period of ripening short; two inches by one and one-half inches 

 in size, obovate, slightly necked, compressed, halves unequal; cavity shallow, narrow, 

 abrupt; suture shallow; apex roundish or depressed; color light to dark purplish-red, 

 overspread with bloom of medium thickness; dots numerous, smallish, russet, incon- 

 spicuous; stem seven-eighths inch long, thinly pubescent, adhering well to the fruit; 

 skin of medium thickness and toughness, adhering but slightly to the pulp; flesh light 

 golden-yellow, variable in juiciness, coarse, somewhat fibrous, firm, rather sweet, mild 

 fair in quality; stone semi -clinging or clinging, one and one-eighth inches by five-eighth"' 

 inch in size, long-oval, flattened, with rough and pitted surfaces; ventral suture strongh 

 furrowed; dorsal suture with a shallow groove. 



GLASS 



Pruntis domestica 



1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 3rd App. 181. 1881. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 39. 1899. 3. Mich. 

 Sta. Bui. 169:245. 1899. 4. Waugh Plum Cult. 104. 1901. 5. Can. Exp. Farm Bui. 43:34. 1903. 

 6. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 57. 1907. 



Glass Seedling 2. Glass Seedling 4, 5, 6. 



Although found in some collections in the United States, Glass has 

 never attained commercial importance in this country, probably because 



