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Leaves broadly oval, wide, medium in length, thick, somewhat stiff; upper surface 

 rugose, covered thinly with hairs; lower surface pubescent; apex abruptly pointed, 

 margin serrate or crenate, eglandular; petiole short, thick, heavily pubescent, lightly 

 tinged red, glandless or with one or two large, reniform or globose, greenish-brown 

 glands usually on the stalk. 



Season of bloom intermediate in time and length ; flowers appearing with the leaves, 

 one and one-eighth inches across, white; pedicels three-quarters inch in length, thick, 

 pubescent, green; calyx-tube greenish, campanulate, pubescent; calyx-lobes broad, 

 obtuse, thickly pubescent on both surfaces, glandular-serrate, reflexed; petals oval, 

 crenate, tapering to short and very broad claws; anthers yellow; filaments five-six- 

 teenths inch long; pistil pubescent, longer than the stamens. 



Fruit late; two inches by one and three-quarters inches in size, roundish-oval, 

 halves unequal; cavity deep, medium to narrow, abrupt; suture shallow, often a line; 

 apex roundish or flattened; color dark purplish-red, often with russet flecks scattered 

 over the surface, overspread with thick bloom; dots numerous, small, reddish-brown, 

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

 adhering well to the fruit; skin thin, tender, slightly astringent, separating readily; 

 flesh golden-yellow, juicy, somewhat fibrous, tender, sweet next to the skin, pleasantly 

 tart towards the center, aromatic; good; stone clinging, one inch by five-eighths inch 

 in size, long-oval, turgid, roughened and pitted, pointed at the base, blunt at the apex; 

 ventral suture rather wide, shallowly furrowed, blunt; dorsal suture with a wide, shallow 

 groove. 



MONROE 



Pruniis domestica 



I. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 189, 210. 1856. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 389. 1857. 3. Thomas 

 Am. Fruit Cult. 356. 1867. 4. Barry Fr. (Jarrfcu 414. 1883. 5. Guide Prat. 163,364. 1895. 6. 

 Cornell Sta. Bui. 131:189. 1897. 7. Waugh P/itin Cwft. 116. 1901. 8. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. 

 Man. 2:320. 1903. 



Monroe Egg i, 6. Monroe Egg 2, 7, 8. Monroe Gage i, 2, 5, 7, 8. Monroe Gage 4. Reine- 

 Claude de Monroe 5. 



The fruit of Monroe is small and the trees produce well only in alter- 

 nate years, defects that its high quality cannot overcome. Monroe origi- 

 nated with a Miss Durham, Penfield, Monroe County, New York, about 

 the middle of the last century. At one time it was quoted by nearly all 

 nurserymen but the variety is fast disappearing. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, hardy, productive; branchlets covered 

 with fine pubescence; leaves oval, one and three-quarters inches wide, three and one- 

 half inches long, thick, rugose; margin finely serrate; petiole tinged red, pubescent, 

 with from one to three small glands. 



Fruit matures in mid-season; one and three-eighths inches by one and one- 

 quarter inches in size, oval, sometimes necked, golden-yellow, often mottled on the 



