138 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



serrate, with small, brownish glands; petiole three-eighths inch long, slightly pubescent 

 along one side, reddish, glandless or with from one to five small, globose, green or 

 reddish glands usually on the stalk. 



Blooming season early; flowers appearing with the leaves, medium in size; borne 

 in clusters on lateral buds and spurs, in pairs or in threes; pedicels of medium length and 

 thickness, slightly pubescent, greenish; calyx-tube green, obconic, glabrous; calyx- 

 lobes obtuse, with ciliate margins, glabrous, erect; petals broadly oval, entire, abruptly 

 clawed; anthers yellowish; filaments of average length; pistil glabrous, equal to the 

 stamens in length. 



Fruit early, season short; one and three-eighths inches in diameter, roundish- 

 ovate, halves nearly equal, slightly compressed; cavity medium in depth and width, 

 abrupt, regular; suture shallow, distinct; apex pointed; color pinkish-red changing 

 to darker red, mottled, with thin bloom; dots numerous, of medium size, russet, con- 

 spicuous; stem one-half inch long, glabrous, parting easily from the fruit; skin thin, 

 tough, bitterish, separating readily; flesh yellow, very juicy, tender and melting, sweet 

 except next to the pit, pleasantly aromatic; good; stone clinging, three-quarters inch 

 by one-half inch in size, oval, somewhat compressed, pointed, rough, ridged along the 

 ventral suture; dorsal suture grooved. 



AGEN 



Prunus domestica 



1. Kraft Pom. Aust. 2:38, Tab. 189 fig. i. 1796. 2. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 143, 147, 152, 153 

 1831. 3. Prince Pom. Man. 2:75, 100. 1832. 4. Poiteau Pom. Franc, i. 1846. 5. Downing Fr 

 Trees Am. 309. 1845. 6. U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt. 30. 1854. 7. Thompson Card. Ass't 519. 1839 

 8. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 86. 1862. g. Oberdieck DeiU. Obst. Sort. 427. 1881. 10. Hogg Fruit Man. 

 683. 1884. II. Mas Le Verger 6:81, fig. 1866-73. 12- Cal. State Bd. Hort. 291. 1SS5-86. 13 

 Cat. Cong. Pom. France 343. 1887. 14. Cal. State Bd. Hort. 49, 50. 1S87-88. 15. Ibid. 233, 233 

 340. 1890. 16. Ibid. 96, 105, PI. I. 1891. 17. Guide Prat. 160, 353. 1895. 18. Oregon Sta. Bui. 

 45:24. 1897. 19. Cornell Sta. Bui. 131:191. 1897. 20. U. S. D. A. Div. Pom. Bui. 7:315, 316 

 PI. IV, fig.4. 1898. 21. Mich. Sta. Bui. 169:241, 242. 1899. 22. Cal. Fr. Gr. Con. 29. 1901, 

 23. Waugh PlumCuU. 94, 95 fig. 1901. 24. Baltet Cult. Fr. 495, fig. 331, 506, 507, fig. 336. 190S 

 23. Wickson Cal. Fruits 225. 1908. 26. Cal. Fr. Grower 40:18, 19, fig. 1909. 



Agen 22. Agener Kaiserzwetsclte 17. Agen Date 3. Agen Datte 5, 10. Agener Pflaume 17. 

 Agener Pflaume 9. Agen Pnine 21. California 20. California 16. D'Agen 2, 10, 11, 17, 24. 

 D'Agen 3, 5, 8, 13, 20. D'Ast 13, 17. Date 21. Datte 17. De Brignole 17. D'Ente 13, 17, 24. 

 D'Ente d'Agen 13. Datte Violette i, it,, ly. Die Blaue Dattelpfiaume ly. Die Blaue Dattelpflaume i. 

 Du Rot 17. French 20. French Prune 13, 18, 23, 25. French Prune (?) 2, 12, 14, 13, 26. Lot 

 d'Ente 18. Petite 20. Petite d'Agen 14, 20, 26. Petite Prune 18. Petite Prune 23. Petite Prune 

 d'Agen 25. Prune d'Agen 5, 6, 7, 8, 15, 17, ig, 25. Prune d'Agen 14, 16, 18, 23. Prune de Brig- 

 nole (pi some) 5, y, ly. Pru>te d'Ante 3. Prune d'Ast $, j, 10, 11. Prune d'Ente j, 12, iS. Prunier 

 d'Agen 3. Prunier d'Agen 6. Prune d'Ente 22. Prune du Rot 10. Robe de Sergoit 3, 3, 7, a, 

 II, 13, 17, 18. Robe de Sargent 10, 12. Roi d'Agen 2. Saint Maurin 2, 4. St. Maurin 5, 7, 10, 17. 

 Saint jMatiriniatta 4. Violette Dattcl::wetschc 17. 



Agen is the plum par excellence for pn:ne-making in France and 

 America. Several qualities make it admirably fit for curing into prunes. 



