34 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



The following sorts may be named as belonging here :— Lombard, 

 Bradshaw, Victoria, Pond, Duane, Autumn Compote, Belle, Middleburg 

 and Field. 



2. PRUNUS INSITITIA Linnaeus 



I. Linnaeus Amoen. Acad. 4:273. 1755. 2. Seringe PC. Prodr. 2:532. 1825. 3. Hooker Brit. 

 Fl. 220. 1830. 4. Loudon Arb. Fr. Brit. 2:687. 1844. 5. K.ocb., K. Dend. 1:95. 1869. 6. Ibid. 

 DeiU. Obst. 144. 1876. 7. De Candolle Or. Culi. PI. 211. 1885. 8. Emerson Trees of Mass. Ed. 

 4:512. 1887. 9. Schwarz Forst. Bot. 339. 1892. 10. Koch, W. Syn. Deut. und Schw. Fl. 1:726. 

 1892. II. Koehne Deut. Dend. 316. 1893. 12. Dippel Handb. Laubh. 3:639. 1893. 13. Lucas. 

 Handb. Obst. 429. 1893. 14. Beck von Managetta Nied. Oester. 819. 1893. 



P. communis (in part). 15. Hudson Fl. Anglic. 212. 1778. 16. Bentham Handb. Brit. Fl. 

 1:236. 1865. 



P. domcstica insititia. 17. Schneider Handb. Laubh. 1: 630. 1892. 18. Waugh Bot. Gaz. 

 27:478. 1899. 



Tree dwarfish but thrifty, attaining a height of twenty to twenty-five feet ; trunk 

 reaches eight inches in diameter and bears its head rather low, three to five feet from 

 the ground; bark gray with a tinge of red, smooth, with transverse cracks; branches 

 upright-spreading, rigid, compact, short-jointed, and more or less thorny; branchlets 

 pubescent, slender, reddish-brown or drab. 



Winter-buds small, conical, pointed or obtuse, free or appressed; leaves small, 

 ovate or obovate; apex obtuse or abruptly pointed, base cuneate or narrowed and 

 rounded, margins finely and closely, sometimes doubly serrate or crenate, usually 

 glandular; texture thin and firm; upper surface slightly rugose, dark green, slightly 

 hairy; lower surface paler and soft, pubescent; petioles one-half inch long, slender, 

 pubescent, tinged with red; glands few or glandless. 



Flowers expand with or after the leaves, one inch or less in size; borne variously 

 but usually in lateral, umbel-like clusters, one, two or rarely three from a bud, on 

 slender pedicels, which are pubescent and one-half inch in length; ~ calyx-tube cam- 

 panulate, glabrous or nearly so, green or tinged with red; calyx-lobes narrow, obtuse 

 or acute, glandular-serrate, glabrous or pubescent, reflexed; petals white or creamy in 

 the bud, broadly oval, entire or dentate, reflexed, claw short; stamens about twenty- 

 five, as long as the petals; anthers yellow, often tinged with red; pistil glabrous and 

 nearly as long as the stamens. 



Fruit ripens from early to late; globular or oval, often necked, less than an inch in 

 diameter, variously colored but usually bluish-black or amber-yellow, with a heavy bloom ; 

 skin thin, tough ; stem slender, one-half inch long, more or less 'pubescent ; cavity shallow, 

 narrow; apex roundish or flattened; suture indistinct or a line; flesh firm, yellow, 

 juicy, sweet or acid; stone clinging or free, somewhat turgid, ovoid, nearly smooth, 

 ridged on one edge and grooved on the other. 



There is a great diversity of opinion among botanists as to what 

 Linnaeus meant to include in his Prunus insititia. His description of 

 the species is not definite and can be made to apply to any one of several 

 very distinct plums. But the botanists who recognize the species usually 



