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while in Ohio (References, 15) it is thought that Wales " ought to become 

 popular." 



Wales, a seedling of Orleans, was raised by a Mr. Chapman, Brent- 

 ford, Middlesex, England, in 1830. It was exhibited before the London 

 Horticultural Society in 1845 where it was awarded a prize. The following 

 year, Hovey, the American pomologist, (References, 2) described the 

 variety but the date of the first importation to this country is unknown. 

 It was not until 1897 that the variety was sufficiently known to be placed 

 on the fruit catalog list of the American Pomological Society. 



Tree large, vigorous, slightly vasiform, open-topped, hardy, very productive; 

 branches ash-gray, smooth except for the numerous, small, slightly raised lenticels, 

 often marked by concentric rings; branchlets of medium thickness and length, with 

 long intemodes, green changing to brownish-red, dull, thinly pubescent, with numerous, 

 inconspicuous, small lenticels; leaf-buds large, long, conical or pointed; leaf-scars 

 prominent. 



Leaves folded upward, roundish-ovate or oval, two and one-half inches wide, three 

 and one-half inches long; upper surface dark green, somewhat rugose, covered with 

 numerous hairs; lower surface pale green, thickly pubescent; apex and base abrupt, 

 margin crenate, eglandular or with small dark glands; petiole one-half inch long, pubes- 

 cent, tinged red, glandless or with from one to three small, globose, yellowish-brown 

 glands usually at the base of the leaf. 



Blooming season short; flowers one inch across, white, with a yellow tinge; usually 

 borne in pairs; pedicels eleven-sixteenths inch long, thick, pubescent, greenish; cal3'x- 

 tube green, campanulate, lightly pubescent toward the base; calyx-lobes broad, obtuse, 

 pubescent on both surfaces, glandular-serrate and with marginal hairs, erect; petals 

 broadly oval, crenate, tapering to short, blunt claws; filaments five-sixteenths inch long; 

 pistil glabrous except on the ovary, longer than the stamens; stigtna large. 



Fruit late, season short; one and five-eighths inches by one and one-half inches 

 in size, roundish-oval, halves equal; cavity narrow, abrupt; suture a line; apex roundish ; 

 color reddish-purple, overspread with thick bloom; dots few, large, often tinged red, 

 conspicuous; stem thick, one-half inch long, pubescent, adhering well to the fruit; 

 skin tough, separating readily; flesh golden-yellow, juicy, tender, sweet, mild; good; 

 stone semi-free or free, seven-eighths inch by five-eighths inch in size, oval, turgid, 

 blunt at the base and apex, with slightly pitted surfaces; ventral suture narrow, often 

 acute or with a slight wing; dorsal suture widely and deeply grooved. 



WANGENHEIM 



Primus domcstica 



I. Cultivator 8:26 fig. i860. 2. Mas Le Verger 6:157, fig. 79. 1866-73. 3- A^- Pom. Sac. 

 Ca/. XXIV. 1871. 4. Mathieu iVowi. Po)n. 453. 1889. 5. Guide Prat, i^g, ^,6j. 1895. 6. Waugh 

 Plum Cult. 125. 1 90 1. 



