322 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



RED DATE 



Prunus doniestica 



I. Parkinson Par. Ter. 576. 1629, 2. Rea Flora 208. 1676. 3. Ray Hist. Plant. 2:1529. 

 1688. 4. Kraft Pom. Aust. 2:43, Tab. 196 fig. 2. 1796. 5. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 147. 1831. 

 6. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 447. 1889. 



A Fkur Double 5. Battel Pfiaume 6. Battel Zwetsche 6. Die grosse rothe Feigenpflaume 4. 

 Figue Grose Rouge 5. Figue Grosse Rouge 6. Fruh Zwetsche 6. Grosse Rote Feigen Pfiaume 6. 

 Lange Violette Battel Zwetsche 6. Lange Violette Battel Pfiaume 6. Prune figue grosse rouge 4. 

 Prwie d'Auiriche 6. Prune Figue 6. Prune Batte 6. Pur pur Pfiaume 6. Red Date-plum 3. Rote. 

 Dattelzwetsche 6. Rote Feigen Pfiaume 6. Turkische Zwetsche 6. Ungarisclie Zwetsche 6. Wil- 

 mot's Russian 5. Zuckcr Zwetsche 6. 



Red Date is an interesting variety because of its very peculiar shape 

 which is that of an elongated curved date. Its flavor is agreeable and 

 all of the characters of fruit and tree are as good as in the average variety; 

 yet it can probably be counted as nothing more than an interesting curiosity. 

 Parkinson described the Red Date as long ago as 1629 and it seems to 

 have maintained a place in horticulture since then. The variety was 

 imported from France in 1901 by the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture from which source trees were obtained by this Station. 



Tree of medium size, upright-spreading, dense-topped, productive; branches 

 thorny; branchlets developing many laterals on the new wood at right angles to 

 the direction of growth, thickly pubescent; leaf -buds free; leaves folded backward, 

 obovate, one and one-half inches by three and one-quarter inches long; margin crenate, 

 with small dark glands; petiole pubescent, rather long, glandless or with from one 

 to three small glands ; blooming season intermediate in time and length ; flowers appear- 

 ing after the leaves, seven-eighths inch across; borne in scattering clusters on lateral 

 buds and spurs, singly or in pairs. 



Fruit mid-season; one and five-eighths inches by one inch in size, long irregular- 

 oval, enlarged on the suture side, dark purplish-red, with thick bloom; flesh golden- 

 yellow, rather dry, firm, sweet, mild; of fair quality; stone free, one and one-eighth 

 inches by one-half inch in size, very long and narrow, somewhat oblique, acute and 

 oblique at both base and apex; ventral suture blunt; dorsal suture with a long, narrow, 

 deep groove. 



RED DIAPER 

 Prunus doniestica 



1. Quintinye Com. Card. 67, 68, 69. 1699. 2. Miller Gard. Kal. 184. 1734. 3- Knoop Fruct- 

 ologie 2:57. 1761. 4. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:102, PI. XX fig. 12. 1768. 5. Kraft Pom. Aust. 

 2:36, Tab. 185 fig. 2. 1796. 6. Willichs Bom. Enc. 300. 1803. 7. Pom. Mag. 1:6, PI. 1828. 

 8. Prince Pom. Man. 2:69, 90. 1832. 9. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 298. 1843. lO- Floy-Lindley 

 Guide Orch. Gard. 285, 287, 288, 383. 1846. II. Poiteau Pom. Franc. 1:1846. 12. Horticulturist 

 3:20. 1848. 13. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 335, fig. 261. 1849. I4- Horticulturist 4:195. 1S49. 



