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THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



New Ulm was raised from seed of a wild variety that grew in the 

 neighborhood of the originator and introducer, C. W. H. Heideman, New 

 Ulm, Minnesota. The fruit was exhibited at the Minnesota State Fair 

 in 1890 where it attracted much attention, being the largest plum of fifty 

 varieties exhibited. In 1899 the American Pomological Society placed 

 the variety on its fruit catalog list. The Minnesota State Horticultural 

 Society, in spite of the fact that this plum has gained a good reputation 

 for its size and productiveness, removed it from its recommended fruit 

 list in 1904 because of the difficulty of growing the trees in the nursery. 



Tree of medium size, spreading and drooping, irregular, low and dense-topped, 

 undesirable in habit of growth, hardy, usually productive, subject to attacks of shot- 

 hole fungus; branches very rough and shaggy, zigzag, thorny, dark ash-gray, with 

 large lenticels; branchlets thick, long, willowy, with long internodes, green, with a 

 faint yellow tinge, changing to light and dark, dull reddish-brown, glabrous, with numer- 

 ous, conspicuous, large, raised lenticels; leaf-buds small, pointed, strongly appressed. 



Leaves drooping, folded upward, oval or ovate, two inches wide, four and three- 

 eighths inches long, thin; upper surface dark green, changing to reddish-yellow late in 

 the season, glabrous, with a grooved midrib; lower surface silvery green, lightly pubes- 

 cent; apex taper-pointed, base abrupt, margin coarsely and doubly serrate, eglandular; 

 petiole slender, five-eighths inch long, pubescent, tinged with red which deepens in 

 color at the base, glandless or with from one to three globose, greenish-brown glands 

 usually on the stalk. 



Flowers intermediate in time and length of blooming season, appearing after the 

 leaves, showy on account of the numerous pure white petals, one and one-sixteenth 

 inches across, white; borne in dense clusters on lateral spurs and buds, usually in threes; 

 pedicels seven-sixteenths inch long, thick, glabrous, greenish; calyx-tube red, cam- 

 panulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes long, narrowly obtuse, lightly pubescent on the inner 

 surface, thickly pubescent along the glandular-serrate margin, erect; petals oval, entire or 

 incised, tapering below to narrow claws of medium length and with reddish base; anthers 

 yellow; filaments seven-sixteenths inch in length; pistil glabrous, much shorter than 

 the stamens. 



Fruit mid-season, intermediate in length of ripening period; about one and 

 three-eighths inches in diameter, roundish-ovate, halves equal; cavity markedly 

 shallow, very narrow; suture a line; apex roundish or slightly pointed; color carmine 

 over a yellow ground, overspread with thin bloom; dots very numerous, russet; stem 

 five-eighths inch long, glabrous, adhering somewhat to the fruit; skin thick and tough, 

 astringent, adhering strongly; flesh golden-yellow, very juicy and fibrous, granular, 

 tender and melting, sweet with a strong aromatic flavor; good; stone adhering, seven- 

 eighths inch by nine-sixteenths inch in size, oval, slightly flattened, blunt at the base, 

 pointed at the apex, with smooth surfaces; ventral suture distinctly winged; dorsal 

 suture narrow, shallow, grooved. 



