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too, are quite susceptible to brown-rot. The tree-characters of this variety- 

 are in the main very good but not at all out of the ordinary. It is very 

 doubtful whether this sort can compete for any purpose with such similar 

 plums as Hand, Jefferson, Washington, Bavay, Reine Claude, McLaughlin 

 and Imperial Gage. It may be worthy a trial elsewhere in New York 

 ^\■ith the hope that it will more nearly approach the reputation that it 

 has in other states than it does at Geneva — at best it cannot be more than 

 a home variety. 



Spaulding was brought to the notice of fruit-growers by J. T. Lovett, 

 Little Silver, New Jersey, who introduced the variety in 1888. The plum 

 came to Mr. Lovett from Francis Garriel with the statement that it origi- 

 nated as a seedling in the yard of Mr. Garriel's father in the Bowery, New 

 York City. From the resemblance of Spaulding to the Imperial Gage it is 

 probable that they are closely related. In 1899 the variety was placed 

 on the fruit catalog list of the American Pomological Society as a success- 

 ful variety in the north-eastern part of the United States and the neigh- 

 boring parts of Canada. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, dense-topped, hardy, productive ; branches 

 ash-gray, smooth except for the raised lenticels of various sizes; branchlets of medium 

 thickness and length, with long intemodes, greenish-red changing to brownish-red, 

 dull, lightly pubescent throughout the season, with obscure, small lenticels; leaf-buds 

 of medium size and length, conical, appressed; leaf-scars prominent. 



Leaves folded upward, nearly two inches wide, three and one-quarter inches long, 

 thick; upper surface dark green, rugose, glabrous, with a shallow groove on the midrib; 

 lower surface silvery-green, pubescent; apex abruptly pointed or acute, base acute, 

 margin serrate or crenate, -with small, dark glands; petiole nearly five-eighths inch long, 

 thick, pubescent, tinged red, with from one to four small, globose, greenish glands 

 usually on the stalk. 



Blooming season intermediate in time and length, one inch or more across, white 

 with a yellowish tinge at the apex of the petals in the newly opened flowers; borne 

 on lateral spurs, singly or in pairs; pedicels three-eighths inch long, thick, pubescent, 

 greenish; calyx-tube green, campanulate, lightly pubescent; calyx-lobes obtuse, pubes- 

 cent on both surfaces, glandular-serrate, reflexed; petals oblong, crenate, not clawed; 

 anthers yellow; filaments one-quarter inch long; pistil glabrous or occasionally with a 

 few hairs near the base, longer than the stamens; stigma large. 



Fruit mid-season, ripening period long; one and five-eighths inches by one and 

 three-eighths inches in size, oblong-oval or ovate, compressed, halves equal; cavity 

 small, shallow, abrupt ; suture shallow, often a line ; apex roundish ; color dull greenish- 

 yellow, with stripes and splashes of light green, overspread with thick bloom; dots 

 numerous, small, whitish, inconspicuous; stem three-quarters inch long, lightly pubes- 



