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season of medium length; flowers appearing after the leaves, three-quarters inch across; 

 borne in dense clusters on lateral buds and spurs, in threes or fours; anthers so numerous 

 as to give a yellowish color to the flower-clusters. 



Fruit mid-season, period of ripening long; one and three-quarters inches by one 

 and three-eighths inches in size, nearly round, dark golden-yellow with bright red blush, 

 covered with thin bloom; flesh golden-yellow, very juicy, melting, sweet next to the 

 skin, but tart at the pit, aromatic; of fair quality; stone clinging, five-eighths inch by 

 one-half inch in size, oval, turgid, with slightly pitted surfaces. 



KELSEY 



Primus triflora 



I. Gard. Man. 24:339. 1882. 2. U. S. D. A. Rpt. 272. 1886. 3. Gard. Mon. 29:305, 333. 

 367. 1887. 4. U. S. D. A. Rpt. 635, 652. 1887. 5. Atn. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 95, 126. 1887. 6. Ga. 

 Hort. Soc. Rpt. 35. 1888. 7. Ibid. 51, 99. 1889. 8. Rev. Hort. 502, 542. 1890. 9. Am 

 Pom. Soc. Rpt. 105, 106, 125. 1891. 10. Am. Gard. 13:700. 1892. 11. Corttell Sta. Bui, 

 62:3,24. 1894. 12. Tex. Sta. Bui. 32:488 fig., 48g. 1894. 13. Cornell Sta. Bui. lo6:S3. 1896. 14, 

 Ala. Col. Sta. Bid. 85:447. 1897. 15. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 41. 1899. 16. Waugh Plum Cut. 137 

 1901. 17. A^ C. Sta. Bui. 184:120. 1903. 18. Ga. Sta. Bui 68:15, 31. 1905. 



Botankin 7. Botankin 3. Hattankio 7. Kelsey's Japan 2, 3, 5. Sinomo 7. Togari 7. 



Kelsey is distinguished as the largest, the latest and the tenderest 

 to cold of all Triflora plums in America. The variety is not much hardier 

 than the fig and cannot be safely planted north of Washington and Balti- 

 more. The tree is vigorous, well formed and productive, having for its 

 worst fault susceptibility to shot -hole fungus. The plums are large, very 

 attractive in color and the flesh is firm, the plums being well fitted for 

 shipping, with a rich, pleasant, aromatic flavor making the fruit very good 

 in quality. In the South both curculio and brown-rot attack the fruits rather 

 badly. It is unfortunate that this plum cannot be grown in this latitude. 



Kelsey, the first of the Triflora plums introduced into America, was 

 brought into the country by a Mr. Hough of Vacaville, California, in 1870, 

 through the United States consul in Japan. John Kelsey of Berkeley, 

 California, obtained trees from Hough and propagated it in his nursery 

 to a limited extent. The first fruit was shown by Kelsey in 1877, though 

 fruit is said to have been produced in 1876. In 1883, W. P. Hammon 

 and Company, Oakland, California, secured stock of this plum from the 

 heirs of Mr. Kelsey and the following year extensive sales were made. 

 The plum was named in honor of the man who did most to bring it before 

 the public. The American Pomological Society added the Kelsey to its 

 fruit catalog list in 1889. The following description is compiled. 



Tree vigorous, upright, vasiform, tender, productive, an early and regular bearer; 

 leaves somewhat scant, small, lanceolate, narrow; blooming season early; fruit very 



