152 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



ARKANSAS 



Prunus munsoniana 



I. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 162. 1881. 2. Cornell Sta. Bui. 38:60, 86. 1892. 3. Tex. Sta. Bui. 

 32:478. 1894. 4. Wis. Sta. Bui. 63:27. 1897. 5. Waugh Plum Cult. 192, 194 fig. 1901. 6. 

 Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 293. 1903. 7. la. Hart. Soc. Rpt. 488. 1904. 



Arkansas Lombard i, 2, 3, 4, 7. Arkattsas Lombard 5, 6. 



Arkansas, as the synonymy shows, originally, and even now, usually 

 has Lombard as a suffix, but the name is misleading as the plum is in no 

 wise like a Lombard and following the rules of the American Pomological 

 Society it has been dropped in The Plums of New York. On the grounds 

 of this Station, Arkansas is one of the most valuable plums of its species, 

 being unusually attractive in size, color and shape and one of the best 

 in quality of its kind. Its chief fault is a lack of robustness in the tree. 

 While it would not prove profitable as a market plum in New York, it could 

 be well planted in a commercial orchard in regions where native plums 

 must be grown, and in New York it would at least add a pleasing variety 

 to any collection of plums. This variety was brought to notice by T. V. 

 Munson in 1881. It originated in Arkansas and was introduced by J. D. 

 Morrow & Sons of that state. 



Tree small, flattened, spreading, dense-topped, symmetrical, hardy, productive, 

 somewhat subject to shot-hole fungus; trunk shaggy; branches rough, zigzag, sparingly 

 thorny, dark ash-gray, with numerous lenticels; branchlets slender, with very short 

 internodes, greenish-red changing to reddish-brown, glossy, glabrous, with few, con- 

 spicuous, raised lenticels; leaf-buds small, short, obtuse, free. 



Leaves folded upward, lanceolate, peach-like, one and one-quarter inches wide, 

 three and one-half inches long, thin; upper surface light green, smooth, glabrous, with 

 grooved midrib; lower surface pale green, sparingly pubescent along the midrib and 

 larger veins; apex taper-pointed, base acute, margin finely serrate, with light brown 

 glands; petiole one-half inch long, slender, pubescent on one side, dull red, with from 

 one to six small, globose, yellow or brownish-red glands. 



Blooming season late and long; flowers appearing after the leaves, five-eighths 

 inch across, in the buds creamy -yellow changing to white as they unfold; with a strong 

 disgreeable odor; borne in very dense clusters on lateral buds and spurs, in threes 

 or fours; pedicels one-half inch long, slender, glabrous, greenish; calyx-tube green, 

 campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes short, sparingly pubescent on the inner sur- 

 face, glandular-serrate, faintly hairy and with a trace of red on the margin, erect; petals 

 obovate, crenate, with narrow claws, somewhat hairy at the base; anthers yellowish; 

 filaments nearly one-quarter inch in length; pistil glabrous, slightly shorter than the 

 stamens. 



Fruit early, season very long; one inch by seven-eighths inch in size, roundish- 

 ovate, halves slightly unequal; cavity shallow, flaring, regular; suture an indistinct 



