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THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



Die Wangenhcim 4. De Wangenheim 5. Prmw de Wangenlwim 4. Prune Wangenheim Hative 

 4. Quetsche PrCxoce de Wangenheim 2, 4, 5- Vo^^ Wangenheim Pflaume 2, 4, 5- Wangenhcinis 

 Fruh^wetsche 2, S- Wangenheims Frtth Zwetsche 4. Wangenheim HCitive 4. 



This variety, very well known and highly esteemed in Germany, has 

 been grown to some extent in America both on the Pacific and Atlantic 

 Coasts and in neither region has it proved equal to standard pltims. 

 According to Dittrich, Wangenheim originated at Beinheim, a small place 

 near Gotha, Saxe-Cobourg, Germany. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, productive; trunk rough; branches rough, 

 stocky; branchlets nearly glabrous; leaves folded upward, slightly rugose; margin 

 finely serrate, with small glands; petiole tinged red, pubescent, with from one to three 

 small glands usually at the base of the leaf. 



Fruit mid-season; one and one-quarter inches by one and one-eighth inches in size, 

 ovate, purplish-red, covered with thin bloom, yellowish, rather dry, firm, sweet, mild; 

 of good quality; stone very free, three-quarters inch by one-half inch in size, irregular- 

 ovd, flattened, with faintly pitted surfaces; ventral suture distinctly winged; dorsal 

 suture with a narrow, shallow groove. 



WASHINGTON 



Prnnus dcmestica 



1. Prince Treat. Hon. 24. 1S28. 2. Pom. Mag. 1:16, PL 182S. 3. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 154- 

 1831. 4. Prince Pom. Man. 2:53. 1S32. 5. -Floy-Undley Guide Orch. Card. 298, 3^3, 4^8. 1846. 

 6. Cole Am. Fr. Book 210. 1849- 7- Thomas Am. Fruit CuU. 326 fig., 327- 1S49. 8- Hovey Fr. 

 Am. 1:87, Col. PI. 1851. 9. Am. Pom. Sac. Cat. 54. 1852- lO- EUiott Fr. Book 415- 1854. 

 II. Ann. 'pom. Beige 4:23, PI. 1856. 12. Thompson Card. Ass't 520. 1859. 13- Downing Fr. 

 Trees Am. 951. 1869. 14. Pom. France 7:No. 24. 1871. iS- Mas Le Verger 6:59. 1866-73- 

 16. Hogg Fruit Man. 729. 18S4. 17- Mathieu Norn. Pom. 453- 1889- 18. .Mich. Sta. Bui. 103: 

 32, 33, fig. 1894. 19. Cortiell Sta. Bui. 131:193- 1897. 20. Va. Sta. Bui. 134=44- 1902- 2i- <^'^"- 

 Exp. Farm Bui. 43:36- i9°3- 



Anghsio 17. Bolmai-s, 6, 7, S, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17- Bolmar's Washington 3, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 



16, 17. Bolmar's Washington 5. Bolnwr i, 4, 13. i7- Bolmer's Washington i, 4, 13- Bolmore's 

 Washington 4. Double Imperial Gage 1, 4. FranW»! 3, 4. 5, 8, 10, 1 1, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17- Imperial 

 Gage (of Albany) 4. Irving's Bolmar 10, 13, 16, 17. Irving's Bohner 14. Jackson 11, 13, 14, i7- 

 Louis Philippe 14. Louis Philipp 17. New Washington 3, 4, 5. 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, i7- Parker's 

 Mammoth 10, 13, 16, 17- Philippe 1, 11, 13, i4, i7- Pr™e Washington Jaune 11. Stiperior 

 Gage I, 4, 8. Superior Green Gage 4, 8. The Washington Plum 2, 8. Washington 5, 8. Wash- 

 ington' Bolmar 8. Washington Gage 4. Washington Jaune 13, 14, 17- Washington Mammot 14, 



17. Washington Yellow 17. 



Washington holds high rank among the Reine Claude varieties, plums 

 unsurpassed for dessert purposes. The fruits are large in size for one of 

 this group; handsome in form and color (in the latter respect the color- 

 plate does not do the variety justice) ; abundant in juice yet firm and 



