336 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



a " St. Jiilian " and gave its chief use as a stock for plums, peaches and 

 Bruxelles Apricot. Later writers recommend them chiefly, if not only, 

 as stocks though in France it is said the fruits are dried and sold by the 

 pharmacists and herbalists under the name Prunus medicines (medicinal 

 prunes). Carriere, in Revue Horticole 1892, speaks very highly of these 

 plums as stocks and describes them as follows: 



"Tree vigorous, with branches spreading-straggHng, relatively short, branched at 

 the extremity. Leaves numerous, slightly roughened by the prominence of the numerous 

 nerves on the lower surface, short, oblong, usually rounded at the apex, attenuated 

 at the base, where are found a few very small glands; petiole about two centimeters 

 long, yellowish, lengthening out into a prominent midrib; buds short, oval, pointed, 

 deep reddish-brown; dark green above, pale green below, bordered regularly with 

 very close, short, slightly inclined teeth. 



Fruits very abundant, pedunculate, spherical or oblong, peduncle a little bent, 

 rather strong, nearly three centimeters long, inserted in a very small cavity, regularly 

 rounded. Skin strongly attached to the flesh, even, glossy, purplish-black, more or 

 less glaucous; flesh free from the seed, pulpy, very juicy, soft, greenish, sweet, leaving 

 a taste a little strong, but not disagreeable; seed short oval, elliptical, flattened, ten 

 millimeters in width, nearly fifteen to sixteen millimeters in length, with grayish-red 

 surface roughened by small, regular projections. Matures from July to September." 



SAINT MARTIN 



Prunus donicstica 



1. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 144, 153. 1831. 2. Prince Pom. Man. 2:74. 1832. 3. Downing 

 Fr. Trees Am. 295 fig. 119. 1845. 4. Poiteau Pom. Franc, i. 1846. 5. Mag. Hort. 14:151 fig. 15. 

 1848. 6. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 336 fig. 260, 337. 1S49. 7- Elliott Fr. Book. 423. 1854. 8. 

 Thompson Card. Ass't 515. 1S59. 9. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 40. 1S67. 10. Guide Prat. 162, 365. 

 1895. 



Catherine violette 8, 10. Coe's Fine Late Red 8. Coe's Fine Late Red i, 5, 7, 10. Coe's Late 

 Red 3, 6, 9. Coe's Late Red 5, 6, 7, 10. Coe's sehr spate rothe Pflaume 10. De la Samt-Martin 

 10. Oktoberpflaume 10. Prune de la St. Martin 3. Prunier de Saint Martin 2, 5, 7. Red St. 

 Martin 2, 7. Red Saint Martin 5, 6, 7. Rouge tardive de Coe 10. Saint Martin Rouge 5. Saint- 

 Martin Rouge I, 2, 3, 6, 7, 10. Saint Martin 2, 3, 5. St. Martin 2, 6, 7, 8. St. Martin Rouge 8. 

 Violette d'Octobre 10. Violette Octover pflaume 8. Violette Oktoberpflaume 10. 



Saint Martin is an old French \^ariety now hardly worth growing, 

 brought into England by a Mr. Coe who called it Coe's Fine Late Red, 

 a name continued by the London Hortictiltural Society in its catalog. 

 In the United States, too, it became quite generally known as Coe's Late 

 Red in spite of the efforts of Prince, Downing and Elliott to have it pass 

 under its true name. The variety was mentioned in the American Pomo- 

 logical Society's catalogs from 1867 to 1897. It is described as follows; 



