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the sunny side with red, overspread with thin bloom; dots very numerous, small, 

 grayish, conspicuous, clustered about the apex; stem thick, three-quarters inch long, 

 pubescent; skin tough, adhering to the pulp; flesh greenish-yellow or golden-yellow, 

 juicy, firm, sweet, mild; very good; stone semi-clinging, one inch by three-quarters 

 inch in size, oval, turgid, tapering at the base, blunt at the apex, with thickly pitted 

 surfaces; ventral suture wide, distinctly furrowed, often with a short wing; dorsal 

 suture with a very wide and deep groove. 



ROBINSON 



Primus munsoniana 

 I. Ind. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 134. 18S3. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 151. 1891. 3. Cornell Sta. Bui. 

 38:64, 86. 1892. 4. Mc. Sta. An. Rpt. 12:67. 1896. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 89. 1897. 6. Wis. 

 Hort. Soc. Rpt. 137. 1899. 7. Wis. Sta. Bui. 87:15. 1901. 8. Waugh Plum Cull. 199. 1901. 

 9. Kati. Sta. Bui. 101:131. 1901. 10. Ga. Sta. Bui. 67:280. 1904. 11. Ohio Sta. Bui. 162:256, 

 257. 1905. 



Robinson has long been one of the best known of its species though 

 it is probably inferior in fruit -characters at least to several other Mun- 

 soniana sorts. The plums are attractive in coloring but small in size and 

 comparatively low in quality. The trees are capricious in growth and 

 not as hardy as some others of the species but where they can be grown 

 are always productive. The variety is rated by some authors among those 

 that need cross-pollination to insure large crops. Robinson may be worth 

 growing in the South and in the States of the Plains but it cannot be 

 recommended for any purpose in New York. 



This variet}^ is a seedling grown by a Mr. Pickett of Putnam County, 

 Indiana, from a seed brought with him from North Carolina about 1835. 

 In 1879, Dr. J. H. Robinson read a paper before the Indiana Horticultural 

 Society on Chicasaw plums, and gave a very flattering description of this 

 pkim, which he had been growing since 1872. Later it was named by the 

 Putnam County Horticultural Society in honor of Dr. Robinson. This 

 name was used as a synonym of Miner by Dowming in 1869 but at the 

 present time that usage has almost disappeared in plum literature. 



Tree variable in size, often large, vigorous, spreading, not uniform in habit, some- 

 what open and flat-topped, hardy, medium to productive; trunk shaggy; branches very 

 rough, zigzag, thorny, dark ash-gray, with numerous, large, narrow and strongly 

 elongated, raised lenticels; branchlets slender to medium, with intemodes medium 

 to below in length, greenish-red changing to dull, dark chestnut-red, glabrous, with 

 numerous very conspicuous, large, raised lenticels; leaf-buds small, short, obtuse, free. 



Leaves folded upward, lanceolate, peach-like, one and five-sixteenths inches wide, 

 three and one-half inches long, thin; upper surface dark green, glabrous, with 



