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THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



bloom; dots numerous, conspicuous; flesh pale yellow, juicy, firm, sweet, mild; of 

 fair quality; stone free, one inch by three-quarters inch in size, oval, flattened, strongly 

 roughened; ventral suture deeply furrowed, often with a short wing; dorsal suture 

 with a narrow, shallow groove. 



MYROBALAN 



Primus cerasifera 



I. Parkinson Par. Ter. 576, 578. 1629. 2. Gerard Herball 1498, 1500. 1636. 3. Rea Flora 

 209. 1676. 4. Ray Hist. Plant. 2:1528. 16SS. 5. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:111, PI. XX fig. 15. 

 1768. 6. Kxioop Frtictologie $s, 56. 1771. 7. Forsyth Treat. Fr. Trees 20. 1803. 8. Miller Card 

 Dia. 3:1807. 9 Coxe Cult. Fr. Trees 232. 1817. 10. Land. Hort. Soc Cat. 144, 150. 1831. 11. 

 Prince Pom. Man. 2:80. 1832. 12. Hoffy Orch. Comp. 2:1842. 13. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 294. 

 1845. 14. Floy-Lindley Guide Orch. Card. 28$. 1846. 15. Poiteau Pom. Franc. 1. 1846. 16. Jour. 

 Roy. Hort. Soc. N. S. 15:360. 1868. 17. Hogg Fruit Man. 690. 1884. 18. Card. & For. 1:178. 

 188S. 19. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 448. 1889. 20. Cal. State Board Hort. 112, 113. 1891. 21. Cor- 

 nell Sta. Bid. 38:66. 1892. 22. Rev. Hort. 204. 1894. 23. Neb. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 177. 1895. 24. 

 Guide Prat. 157, 353. 1895. 25. Bailey Ev. Nat. Fruits 190 fig. 27, 209. 1898. 26. Vt. Sta. An. 

 Rpt. 12:211, 212, 215. 1899. 27. S. Dak. Sta. Bui. 93:66. 1905. 



Arabiscke Kirsche ig. Asiatische Kirsche 19. American Cherry Plum 11. Cerisette 11. 18, 19. 

 Gerizette 11. Ciriselle 6. Cerisette 6, 11. Cerisette Blanche 6. Cerise 19. Cherry i, 11. 

 Cherry Plum 7, 8, 11, 16, 19, 20. Cherry 13, 14, 17. Cherry Plum 9, 10, 18. De Virginie 

 10, 13, 14. Damasine 24., D'Amerique Rouge 10, 13, 14. Early Scarlet 10, 11, 13, 17, 19. Etiropean 

 Cherry Plum 11. Muscadine ?i. Kirschpflaume 18, 19. Kleine Kirschpflaume 24. Mirobalan 2. 

 Mirabilon 3. Mirabolan 5 Myrobolan 13. Mirabolanenpfiaume 19 Myrobalans 7. Mirabolane 

 19. Mirobalan 9, 11. Myrobalane 19. AHraboIan 14. Myrobalan 10, 11, 14, 17, 18, 19. Mira- 

 belle Rouge 24. Mirabelle Rouge 10. Miser Plum 19. Miser 12, 13, 14, 17. Prune d'Amerique 

 Rouge 19. Prune Cerise 11. Prune Cerizette 8. Prunus Myrobalana 11, 14, 19, 23. Prunus 

 Cerasifera 10, 11, 13, 14, 19. Prune Ceriset 11. Prune de Virginie 19. Prunier Myrobolan 15, 22. 

 Prune Cerisette 15. Prunus Cerasifera fructu majore 19. Prunus Alyrobolana 13. Queene Mother ?i. 

 Red Mirobalane i. Rote Kirschpflaume 19. Red Mirabelle 12. Rothe Mirabelle 24. Stambul 

 Erik Oder Irek ig. Turkisclie Kirsche ig. Virginian Cherry 10, i^, lA, tj, 19. White Mirobalane i. 

 The Myrobalane Plum 4. 



Myrobalan is a group name rather than a varietal one. Plums of 

 this group are grown from seeds and many varieties have appeared during 

 the last three centuries, differing in color, shape, stone and in many minor 

 characters. The red and reddish -purple plums and the round ones are 

 apparently the most numerous though there are frequent references to 

 the White Myrobalan and to heart-shaped fruits in this group. For 

 a further discussion of these plums see Prunus cerasifera. The Myrobalan 

 plums are used largely as stocks in the propagation of plums and closely 

 allied plants; occasionally they are used for culinary purposes though 

 with rather poor results. 



