204 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



It is possible that Empire deserves more attention from fruit-growers 

 than it has had. It is attractive in appearance, pleasant in flavor and 

 gives promise of shipping well. Wherever the variety proves productive, 

 as it is to a fair degree on the grounds of the Station, this plimi might 

 well be grown. Empire was grown by Ezra Rood, Cortland, New York, 

 about 1875, from seed purchased at the State Fair. In 1890, E. Smith 

 & Sons of Geneva found this plum in Mr. Rood's yard and procured cions 

 of it, afterwards introducing the variety under the name Rood. The 

 year that they made the discovery, John Hammond, also of Geneva, found 

 the same variety at another place in Cortland and secured cions from 

 which he subsequently disseminated the plum vmder the name Empire, by 

 which it is now generally known. 



Tree intermediate in size and vigor, spreading, open-topped, productive; branches 

 covered with short, thick, fruit-spurs; branchlets short and stubby, pubescent through- 

 out the season; leaf -scars prominent; leaves folded upward, oval or obovate, one and one- 

 half inches wide, three and one-quarter inches long, thick, stiff; margin crenate, egland- 

 ular or with small dark glands; petiole thick, reddish, with a few large, globose or reni- 

 form glands; blooming season intermediate in time and length; flowers appearing after 

 the leaves, over one inch across, yellowish- white ; borne singly or in twos. 



Fruit mid-season, ripening period very long; about one and five-eighths inches in 

 diameter, round, dark reddish-purple, covered with medium thick bloom; dots numerous, 

 conspicuous; stem thick, surrounded by a fleshy ring at the cavity; skin sour; flesh 

 golden-yellow, dry, firm but tender, sweet, mild, pleasant in flavor ; of good quality ; stone 

 nearly free, seven-eighths inch by three-quarters inch in size, oval, turgid, with roughened 

 surfaces; ventral suture broad, with short but distinct wing; dorsal suture wide, deep. 



ENGLEBERT 



Primus domestic a 



I. Horticulturist 10:71. 1855. 2. DowTiing Fr. Trees Am. 392. 1857. 3. Cultivator 6:312 

 fig. 1858. 4. Hogg Fruit Man. 376. 1866. 5. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 344- 1867. 6. Am. 

 Pom. Soc. Cat. 24. 1871. 7. Mas Le Verger 6:61. 1866-73. 8. Barry Fr. Garden 415. 1883. 

 9. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 357. 1887. 10. Wickson Cal. Fruits 354. 1891. 11. Guide Prat. 154, 

 361. 1895. 12. Cornell Sta. Bui. i3i:i<)o. 1897. 13. N. Mex. Sta. Bui. 2T.-i2e,. 1898. z^. Mich. 

 Sta. Bui. 169:242, 244. 1899. 15. Waugh Plum Cult. loi, 103 fig. 1901. 16. Va. Sta. BuL 

 134:42. 1902. 



Englebert 9. Prince Englebert i, 2. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12. Prince Engelbert 10, 13. Prince 

 Englebert 15, 16. Prim Engelbert 11. 



In common parlance Englebert is a prune, its origin, shape, color and 

 firm golden-yellow flesh all marking it as such, but in prune-making regions 

 it is usually marketed in the green state, if grown at all, and is Httle used 

 in curing. It cannot be said to be much more popular as a plixm than it 



