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dots numerous, small to medium, conspicuous, densely clustered about the apex; stem 

 very slender, five-eighths inch long, glabrous, not adhering to the fruit; skin thick, tough, 

 clinging but slightly; flesh attractive light yellow; moderately juicy, coarse, fibrous, 

 rather tender, mildly sweet next the skin but astringent towards the pit; fair to good; 

 stone clinging, five-eighths inch by three-eighths inch in size, long-oval, somewhat 

 elongated at the base and apex, turgid, with rough and pitted surfaces ; ventral suture 

 wide, blunt, faintly ridged; dorsal suture acute, with a narrow, indistinct groove. 



WEAVER 



Prunus anicricana 



I. Mich. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 267. 1874. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 44. 1883. 3. Mich. Hort. Soc. 

 Rpt. 268. 1885. 4. Minn. Sta. Bui. 5:36, 37 fig. 1889. 5. Coritell Sta. Bui. 38:45, 86. 1892. 

 6. Can. Hort. 16:409, PI. 1893. 7. Mich. Sta. Bui. 123:21. 1895. 8. Wis. Sta. Bui. 63:24, 62. 

 1897. 9. Colo. Sta. Bui. 50:46. 1898. 10. la. Sta. Bui. 46:291. 1900. 11, Waugh Plum Cult. 

 166 fig. 190 1. 12. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 302. 1903. 13. Can. Exp. Farm Bui. 43:32. 

 1903. 14. Ga. Sta. Bui. 67:283. 1904. 15. 5. Dak. Sta. Bui. 93=41. 1905. 



Weaver is an old and well-known Americana, once one of the most 

 popular of its species because of its hardiness and productiveness. It is 

 still listed by many ntirserymen and is widely distributed throughout 

 the country but it is now rapidly passing out of cultivation, being super- 

 seded by sorts producing larger and better colored fruits. 



This variety was foimd growing wild on the Cedar River, in Iowa, by 

 a Mr. Weaver. In 1873, Ennis and Patten, Charles City, Iowa, began its 

 sale to fruit-growers. The American Pomological Society placed the 

 Weaver on its fruit catalog list in 1883, dropped it in 1891, and replaced 

 it in 1897. The following description is partly compiled. 



Tree large, vigorous, well formed, upright-spreading, unusually hardy, productive; 

 branches long, slender; branchlets slender, long, with short intemodes, reddish-brown, 

 glabrous, with numerous, conspicuous lenticels of medium size; leaf-buds small, conical, 

 of average length. 



Leaves falling late, four and one-half inches long, two and one-half inches wide, 

 obovate or oval, firm, thick, leathery; upper surface dark green, slightly roughened, 

 glabrous, with narrow midrib; lower surface pale green, pubescent on the midrib and 

 larger veins; apex acuminate, base somewhat acute, margin deeply and coarsely serrate; 

 petiole five-eighths inch long, stout, reddish, slightly pubescent along one side, usually 

 with two large, globose, reddish-brown glands on the stem. 



Flowers large, prominently stalked; calyx-lobes conspicuously glandular, lightly 

 pubescent within. 



Fruit mid-season or later; one inch by three-quarters inch in size, large for a native, 

 oval or roundish-oblong, compressed, halves unequal; cavity medium to shallow, 

 narrow, rather abrupt; suture shallow, distinct; apex roundish or depressed; color not 



