l68 THE PLUMS OF NEW" YORK. 



buds and spurs, singly or in pairs; pedicels nearly eleven-sixteenths inch long, pubescent, 

 green; calyx-tube greenish, campanulate, pubescent only at the base; calyx-lobes 

 wide, obtuse, pubescent on both surfaces, glandular-serrate, margins ciliate, reflexed; 

 petals broadly oval, erose, with short, broad claws; anthers yellowish; filaments seven- 

 sixteenths inch long; pistil pubescent at the base, shorter than the stamens. 



Fruit mid-season; two inches by one and three-quarters inches in size, oval or 

 obovate, compressed, halves equal; cavity shallow, narrow, abrupt, with a fleshy 

 ring around the stem; suture very shallow; apex roundish or flattened; color light 

 purplish-red changing to dark reddish-purple at maturity, covered with thick bloom; 

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

 seven-eighths inch long, pubescent, adhering strongly to the fruit; skin thin, somewhat 

 tough, sour, separating readily; flesh dull yellow, often with a trace of red when fully 

 mature, juicy, fibrous, somewhat tender, sweet, pleasant; good; stone semi-free, flat- 

 tened, one and one-quarter inches by three-quarters inch in size, irregularly oval, necked 

 at the base, blunt at the apex, strongly roughened and pitted, often with numerous, 

 small, deep pits near the margins of both ventral and dorsal sutures; ventral suture 

 strongly furrowed and winged; dorsal suture with a deep, narrow groove. 



BRYANSTON 



Pruuus domestica 



1. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 144. 1831. 2. Jour. Hort. N. S. 17:286. 1869. 3. Downing Fr. 

 Trees Am. 902. 1869. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 24. 1871. 5. Barry Fr. Garden 411. 1883. 6. 

 Hogg Fruit Man. 688. 1884. 7. Tenn. Sta. Bui. 3:No. 5, 88. 1890. 8. Gtiide Prat. 155. 1895. 

 9. Thompson Card. Ass't 4:157. 1901. 10. Waugh Plum Cult. 98. 1901. 11. Mass. Sta. An. 

 Rpt. 17:158. 1905. 



Bryanstone 11. Bryanston Gage i, 2, 6, 9. Bryanston's Gage 3, 5, 7. Bryanston's Gage 10. 

 Bryanstone Gage 4. Reine-CIaude Bryanston 8. 



The fruits of Bryanston fall not a little short, all things considered, 

 of being as good as those of several other of the varieties in the Reine 

 Claude group of which this plum is a member. For this reason Bryanston 

 is not often rated by horticulturists as one of the best plums, but the large, 

 vigorous trees growing on the Station grounds are so especially desirable 

 for this variety, in a group which taken as a whole is noted for poor trees, 

 that it is here described among the leading plums. The fruit is larger 

 than that of Reine Claude but is less attractive in color and shape and 

 the quality is not as high. It is later than the variety with which it has 

 just been compared and the crop is not borne as regularly. Wliile this 

 plum can hardly be recommended for extensive orchard plantings, it }-et 

 has too many merits to be forgotten. 



This variety is said to be the result of crossing Reine Claude and 

 Golden Drop at Bryanston Park, Blandford, England. It was first noted 



