l66 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



Tree large, medium in vigor, upright-spreading, open-topped, productive; trunk 

 rough; branches smooth, except for a few, raised lenticels; branchlets of medium 

 thickness, brash, thinly pubescent; leaves oval, two and one-quarter inches wide, four 

 inches long, thick and leathery; upper surface dark green, rugose; margin crenate, with 

 small dark glands; petiole pubescent, thick, tinged red, usually with two globose glands. 



Fruit mid-season; about one and one-half inches in diameter, roundish-ovate, 

 strongly compressed, yellow, mottled with green before full maturity, overspread with 

 thin bloom; stem thickly pubescent; flesh light yellow, dry, meaty, tender, sweet; 

 good in quality; stone semi-free or free, seven-eighths inch by five-eighths inch in 

 size, oval or ovate, turgid, with pitted surfaces. 



BRADSHAW 



Prunus domestica 



I. Mag. Hort. 12:341. 1846. 2. Horticulturist 10:13, 253. 1855. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt 

 190,214. 1856. 4. CwMzJaior 8:25 fig. i860. 5. Mas Pom. Gen. 2:3, fig. 2. 1873. 6. Mich. Pom 

 Soc. Rpt. 303. 1S7S. 7. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 61, 118. 1883. 8. Hogg Fruit Man. 709. 1SS4 

 9. Rural N. Y. 44:103- 1885. 10. Mc. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 130. 1888. 11. Ibid. 144. 1889. 12 

 Mathieu Norn. Pom. 434. 1889. 13. Mich. Sta. Bui. 103:32, ^Z^ %• 6. 1894. 14. Guide Prat 

 157. 3S9- 1895. 15. Cornell Sta. Bui. 131:182. 1897. 16. Mich. Sta. Bui. 169:242, 244. 1899 

 17. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 44:91. 1899. 18. Thompson Gard. Ass't 4:158. 1901. 19. Waugh 

 Plum CuU. 97. 1901. 20. Ont. Fruit Exp. Sta. Rpt. 16, 17 fig. 1902. 21. Va. Sta. Bui. 134:40. 

 1902. 22. Can. Exp. Farm Bui. 43:33. 1903. 23. Ohio Sta. Bui. 162:239, 254, 255, 256. 1905. 



Black Imperial 5, 14. Blue Imperial 5, 14, 19, 20. Bradshaw 9, 14. Grosse Schwarze Kaiser 

 Pflaume 12. Hart Prune 17. Large Black Imperial 8, 14, 18. Large Black Imperial 2, 3, 12. 

 Mooney 9, 17. Niagara 7, 9, 10, 11. Niagara 13, 15, 17, ?I9, 20, ?22, 23. 



Bradshaw leads all other plums in number of trees m New York, 

 according to a survey of the leading orchards made in the preparation 

 of The Plums of New York. A study of the variety does not justify this 

 popularity. The trees grow rather slowly and are slow in coming into 

 bearing; the fruit is not especially high in quality and in many regions 

 is attacked by brown-rot too freely for profitable orchard culture. To 

 offset these faults the trees are large and w^ell formed, bear regularly and 

 heavily, are hardy, robust and healthy, the best of recommendations, 

 and the plums are large, attractive in appearance and keep and ship well 

 especially if picked a little green. The variety, curiously enough, is not 

 nearly as badly attacked by San Jose scale as other plums. Probably one 

 of the reasons why Bradshaw is so largely growTi in New York is that it 

 is easily handled in the nursery and quickly makes a very good nursery 

 tree. Bradshaw does not deserve the high place it holds with plum -grow- 

 ers, and must give way sooner or later to better varieties for commercial 

 orchards. The value of the crop is greatly lessened in New York because 

 it ripens in the midst of the peach season. 



