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cent, adhering well to the fruit; skin thin, tender, separating readily; flesh greenish- 

 yellow, juicy, fibrous, tender, sweet, mild, pleasant; very good; stone semi-free or free, 

 seven-eighths inch by five-eighths inch in size, ovate, turgid, slightly pitted, blunt at the 

 base, nearly acute at the apex; ventral suture rather broad, slightly furrowed, with a 

 distinct but short wing; dorsal suture widely and deeply grooved. 



STANTON 



Prunus domestica 



I. Card. Mon. 29:116. 1S87. 2. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 288. 1889. 3. Cornell Sta. Bui. 131: 

 192. 1897. 



Stanton's Seedling 2 



This plum appears to be a very good late variety in several respects; 

 it is a long-keeping fruit, is of very good quality for dessert and is a fine 

 plum for canning and preserving. Its faults are that it is tardy in coming 

 into bearing and the frtoits drop badly from the trees as they begin 

 to ripen; in localities where these faults are marked the variety is worth- 

 less. Stanton originated as a chance seedling in Albany Coimty, New York, 

 from whence it was sent to Hammond and WiUard of Geneva, New York, 

 who introduced it about 1885. 



Tree very large and vigorous, round-topped, variable in productiveness; branches 

 slender, marked by transverse cracks in the bark; leaf -scars enlarged; leaves folded 

 upward, oval or obovate, one and one-half inches wide, three inches long; margin 

 finely and doubly crenate, with few, dark glands; petiole short, glandless or with from 

 one to three small glands usually on the stalk; blooming season intermediate in time 

 and length; flowers appearing after the leaves, one and one-eighth inches across, borne 

 in scattering clusters on lateral buds and spurs, singly or in pairs. 



Fruit late, season long; about one and one-quarter inches in diameter, roundish- 

 oblate, truncate, purplish-black, overspread with very heavy bloom; flesh bright golden- 

 yellow, fibrous, very sweet, rather high-flavored; good to very good; stone semi-free, 

 three-quarters inch by five-eighths inch in size, irregular roundish-oval, turgid, with a 

 blunt and oblique base, the surfaces nearly smooth; ventral suture enlarged, often 

 with a short, distinct wing; dorsal suture shallow. 



STODDARD 



Prunus americana 



I. la. Hon. Soc. Rpt. 78. 1892. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 88. 1895. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 

 38. 1899. 4. la. Sta. Bui. 46:289. 1900. $. U. S. D. A. Rpt. 47S, PI. LXII. 1902. 

 Baker 2. Stoddart 1, 2. 



Stoddard is usually rated as one of the best of the Americana plums 

 and its behavior on the grounds of this Station sustains its reputation. 



