igS THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



EARLIEST OF ALL 



Prunus tri flora 



I. Card. Mon. 368. 1887. 2. Cornell Sta. Bui. 62:32, 1S94. 3, Normand Cat. 2. 1895-96. 



4. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 516. 1897. 5. Cornell Sta. Bui. 175:130, fig. 24. 1899. 6. Waugh 

 Plum CuU. 135. 1901. 



Earliest of All 4. Wasse Sumomo 5, 6. Wasse Sumomo 3. Yosobe i. Yosete 4. Yosebe 



5, 6. Yosobe 2. Yosebe 2. 



Earliest of All was imported by H. H. Berger of San Francisco from 

 Japan under the name Yosebe, which later became changed to Yosobe, 

 and in 1897 L. H. Bailey gave the variety the name Earliest of All tc 

 avoid the confusion in the earlier nomenclature. The Wasse Sumomo 

 introduced by J. L. Normand, Marksville, Louisiana, in 1895, is the Earliest 

 of All. The variety may have some value because of its extreme earli- 

 ness. It is, however, too small, too unattractive in color and too poor 

 in quality ever to be other than a kitchen plum. 



Tree intermediate in size and vigor, vasiform, unproductive; branchlets dark red^ 

 marked with thick scarf-skin; leaf-scars prominent; leaves reddish late in the season, 

 narrow-obovate, one and one-half inches wide, three inches long; margin finely serrate, 

 with small, reddish-black glands; petiole tinged red, glandless or with from one to seven 

 glands usually on the stalk; blooming season early ; flowers appearing before the leaves, 

 white with a little pink; borne in threes and fours. 



Fruit very early; one inch in diameter, roundish or roundish-oblong, light or dark 

 pinkish-red, covered with thin bloom; flesh light yellow, rather dry, soft, inferior in 

 flavor; of poor quality; stone clinging, five-eighths inch by three-eighths inch in size, 

 flattened, oval. 



EARLY ORLEANS 



Prunus domestica 



1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:80, PI. XX fig. i. 1768. 2. Forsyth Treat. Fr. Trees 21. 1803. 

 3. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 150, 151. 1831. 4. Prince Pom. Man. 2:62, 68. 1832. 5. Kenrick Am. 

 Orch. 260, 269. 1832. 6. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 304. 1845. 7- Floy-Lindley Guide Orch. Card. 

 286, 289, 294, 382, 383. 1846. 8. Poiteau Pom. Franc. 1:1846. 9. Thompson Card. Ass't 516. 

 1859. lO- Hogg Fruit Man. 360. 1866. 11. Pom. France 7:No. 16. 1871. 12. Mas Le Verger 

 6:85. 1866-73. 13. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 430. 1882. 14. Traitc Prat. Sech. Fruits 172. 1893. 

 15. Guide Prat. 152, 360. 1895. 16. Soc. Nat. Hort. France Pom. 542 fig. 1904. 



Altesse du Roi 16. Damascena Dominicalis Praecox 13, 15. De Monsieur 16. De Monsieur 

 Hdtive 15. Du Roi 1$. Early Monsieur 12. Early Monsieur 4, 5. Early Orleans 11, 12, 13, 15. 

 Frflhe Hermpflaume 13. FrUke Herrnpflaume 11. Friihe Herzogspflaume 11, 13, 15. FrUhe Hernn- 

 pflaume 12. Friihe Herrnpflaume 15. Grimwood Early Orleans 10, 13. Grimwood's Early Orleans 

 3, 6, 9, II, 15. Hampton Court 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15. Konigspflaume 11, ?i3, ?is. Monsieur 

 II, 13 & 15 incor. Monsieur Hatif i, 7, 11, 12, 15. Monsieur H&tif 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16. 

 Monsieur Hdtive ^. Monsieur H&tif de Montmorency 3, 6, g. 10, 11, 13, 14, 15. New Early Orleans 



