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purplish-black, overspread with thick bloom; dots numerous, small, russet, incon- 

 spicuous; stem slender, one inch long, sparingly pubescent; skin thin, tender, sour, 

 separating readily; flesh golden-yellow, juicy, rather tender, sweet next the skin but 

 sour towards the center, aromatic; good; stone one and one-eighth inches by five- eighths 

 inch in size, sometimes reddish, ovate, roughened and faintly pitted, acute at the base 

 and apex; ventral suture wide, with numerous ridges; dorsal suture with a wide, shallow 

 groove. 



HXJLINGS 

 Prunus domestica 



1. Prince Treat. Hort. 23. 1828. 2. Kenrick Am. Orch. 261. 1832. 3. Downing Fr. Trees 

 ,4m. 277. 1845. 4. Horticulturist 1:166. 1846. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. S6. 1862. 6. Kogg Fruit 

 Man. 705. 1884. 7. Mathieu Nam. Pom. 435. 1885. 8. Guide Prat. 138, 366. 1895. 



Gloire de NewYork, 6, 7, 8. Ruling's Superb 7, 8. Huling's Superb i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Huling's 

 Treffliche 7. Keiser 2. Keyset's Plum 3, 6, 7, 8. Superbe de Huling 8. 



Hulings is one of the largest of the Reine Claude group of plums and 

 a remarkably fine fruit in every respect. It is particularly agreeable to 

 the taste because of its sprightliness, which so many plums of its type 

 lack. As this variety grows in New York it has much to recommend it 

 for commercial plantations. Its lack of popularity among planters is due 

 somewhat to the wholesale substitution by nurserymen of spurious varie- 

 ties for it. Hulings originated early in the last century with a Mr. Keyser 

 of Pennsylvania who grew it from seed, but Dr. W. E. Hulings of the same 

 state brought it to public notice. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, dense-topped, productive; branchlets brasn, 

 thick, pubescent; leaves unusually large, obovate, three inches wide, six and one-half 

 inches long, thick, leathery, rugose; margin crenate or serrate; petiole thick, tinged 

 red, pubescent, with from one to three globose glands. 



Fruit maturing in mid-season; about one and seven-eighths inches in diameter, 

 roundish, dull greenish-yellow, overspread with thin bloom; skin thin, somewhat sour; 

 flesh greenish, firm but tender, sprightly; good to very good; stone clinging, one and 

 one-eighth inches by three-quarters inch in size, broad-oval, medium turgid, with short, 

 thick, slightly oblique apex; ventral suture often winged; dorsal suture wide, deep. 



HUNGARIAN 



Prunus domestica 

 I. Knoop Fructologie 2:61. 1771. 2. Willichs Dom. Enc. 4:190. 1803. 3. Lond. Hort. Soc. 

 Cat. 143, 14S. 1831. 4. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 2nd App. 156. 1876. 5. Oberdieck DeiU. Obst. 

 Sort. 404. 18S1. 6. Mas Le Verger 6:51, fig. 26. 1866-73. 7- Koch Deut. Obst. 568. 1876. 

 8. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 452. 1889. 9. Cal. State Board Hon. iii fig. 11. 1891. 10. Lucas Vollst. 

 Hand. Obst. 474. 1894. 11. Lange Allgem. Garten. 2:421. 1897. 12. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 465. 

 1893. 13. Oregon Sta. Bui. 45:33. 1897. 14. Waugh Plum Cult. 109. 1901. 



