298 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



Tree variable in size and vigor, upright-spreading, open-topped, hardy for a Tri- 

 flora, not uniform in productiveness, healthy; branches rough, dark, dull ash-gray, 

 with numerous, small lenticels; branchlets slender, long, with internodes of average 

 length, greenish-red changing to dull reddish-brown, often with a green tinge on the 

 winter shoots, glabrous; lenticels numerous, small; leaf -buds small, short, obtuse, free. 



Leaves falling early, sparse, folded upward, oval or obovate, one and three-eighths 

 inches wide, three and one-quarter inches long, thin and leathery; upper surface slightly 

 rugose, with a broad groove on the lightly pubescent midrib; lower surface very thinly 

 pubescent; apex and base acute, margin glandular, doubly serrate or crenate; petiole 

 one-half inch long, hairy along the upper side, green, with from one to three small, 

 globose, yellowish glands variable in position. 



Blooming season early to medium, of average length; flowers appearing before 

 the leaves, thirteen-sixteenths inch across, white; borne in dense clusters on lateral 

 spurs and buds, in pairs; pedicels one-half inch long, slender, glabrous, greenish; calyx- 

 tube green, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes obtuse, glandular-serrate, with numer- 

 ous hairs along the edge, pubescent, somewhat erect; petals broadly ovate, entire, 

 tapering to short, blunt claws; anthers yellow; filaments three-sixteenths inch long; 

 pistil glabrous, longer than the stamens. 



Fruit mid-season or later, ripening period long; one and seven-eighths inches in 

 diameter, roundish-cordate or slightly oblate, halves unequal; cavity deep, wide, flar- 

 ing, with streaks radiating from the cavity; suture shallow or a line; apex roundish to 

 slightly pointed; color dark red over a yellowish-green ground, with bloom of medium 

 thickness; dots numerous, large, russet, conspicuous, clustered about the apex; stem 

 somewhat slender, five-eighths inch long, glabrous, adhering well to the fruit; skin 

 thin, tough, sour, separating readily; flesh light yellow frequently tinged with red, 

 very juicy, slightly fibrous, variable in firmness, sweet, mild, lacking the strong char- 

 acteristic Triflora flavor; good; stone clinging, seven-eighths inch by five-eighths inch 

 in size, roundish-oval, blunt but with a small tip, somewhat rough, ridged along the 

 ventral, grooved on the dorsal suture. 



OGON 



Prunus triflora 



I. Ga. Hon. Soc. Rpt. 29. 1886. 2. Ibid. 35, 58. 1888. 3. Ibid. 53, 99. 1S89. 4. Col.. O.. 

 Hon. Soc. Rpt. 81. 1892. s. Cornell Sta. But. 62:27, 28 fig. 1894. 6. Ga. Hon. Soc. Rpt. 95. 1895. 

 7. Cor)i€ll Sta. Bui. 106:59. '896. 8. Ibid. 131:194. 1897. 9. Ibid. 139:45- 1897. 10. Am. Pom. 

 Soc. Cat. 26. 1897. II. Rural X. Y. 57:562. 1898. 12. Colo. Sta. Bid. 50:43. 1898. 13. Mich. 

 Sta. Bui. 169:242, 249. 1899. 14. Cornell Sta. Bid. 175:138 fig. 1899. 15. Ohio Sta. Bid. 

 113:157. 1899. 16. Waugh Plum Cult. 139. 1901. 17. Ga. Sta. Bui. 68:6 32. 1905. 18. Miss. 

 Sta. Bui. 93:15. 1905. 



Ogan 5. Ogden i. Ogon 5. Shiro Smomo 6. Yellow N agate 2. 



Ogon, the Japanese for gold, is the name for one of the comparative!}' 

 few varieties of Prunus triflora having a yellow color. This variety is 

 further distinguished by being the only freestone sort of its species under 



