144 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



Tfee above medium in size, vigorous, round-topped, dense, productive; branches 

 numerous; branchlets thick, marked by grayish scarf-skin; leaves flattened, oval or 

 obovate, two and one-quarter inches wide, four and one-half inches long, dark green; 

 margin serrate or crenate; blooming season intermediate, short; flowers appearing 

 after the leaves, one and three-eighths inches across, singly or in twos, fragrant. 



Fruit mid-season; very large, roundish-oblate, truncate, golden-yellow, indistinctly 

 streaked with green, mottled, covered with thin bloom; flesh light golden- yellow, tender, 

 sweet, pleasant flavor; good to very good; stone clinging, one inch by three-quarters 

 inch in size, broadly oval, flattened, surfaces pitted; dorsal suture wide, deep. 



AMERICAN EAGLE 



Prunus americana 



I. Cornell Sta. Bui. 38:36. 1S92. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 37. 1899. 3. Can. Exp. Farms Rpt. 

 105. 1900. 4. Waugh Plum Cult. 142. 1901. 5. Can. Exp. Farm Bui. 43:28. 1903. 6. Ohio 

 Sia. Bui. 162:254, 255. 1905. 



Of the origin of ttiis very good Americana variety little is known 

 except that it probably came from Missouri, as it was introduced, in the 

 fall of 1859, by the Osceola Nursery Company, Osceola, Missouri. Although 

 an old variety it was not listed by the American Pomological Society tintil 



1899. In regions where Americana plums are grown, American Eagle 

 ought to be better known, its chief defect being the dull color of the fruit. 



Tree vigorous, spreading; leaves large; petiole glandular. Fruit mid-season; 

 large, varies from roundish-oval to nearly oblate, dark red, covered with thick bloom; 

 stem short, pubescent; flesh yellow, juicy, fibrous, sweet, aromatic, with character- 

 istic Americana flavor; of good quality; stone clinging, three-eighths inch by one-half 

 inch in size, roundish, turgid, conspicuously winged; surface smooth. 



AMES 



Primus americana X Prunus trifiora 



1. Vt. Sta. An. Rpt. 12:220. 1899. 2. 7a. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 112. 1899. 3. la. Sta. Bui. 46:261. 



1900. 4. Wangh Plum Cult. 20^. 1901. 5. Budd-Hansen /Iw. Hort. Man. 293. 1903. 6. S. Dak. 

 Sta. Bui. 93:9. 1905. 7. III. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 422. 1903. 8. Rural N. Y. 65:730. 1906. 



De Soto X Oregon No. 3 6. Japan Hybrid No. 3 2. 



Though Ames has been known to the pubHc scarcely ten years, its 

 good qualities have given it relatively high rank among Americana plums 

 with which it must be compared. Though supposed to be a cross between 

 Prunus americana and Prunus trifiora, the variety shows few, if any, traces 

 of the Trifiora parentage, except, possibly in the shape and color of the 

 fruit. The variety is distinguished from other Americana plums by reddish 



