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Lyon. Domcstica. i. Mich. Sta. Bui. 104:100. 1894. 2. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 367. 

 1896. 3. Mich. Sta. Bid. 169:246. 1899. 



Bailey i. Bailey 2, 3. 



Brought to notice by S. S. Bailey of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and grown for a 

 number of years by the Michigan sub-station at South Haven under the name Bailey; 

 renamed Lyon by the Michigan Horticultural Society in 1896. Tree vigorous, upright, 

 spreading, productive; fruit large, roundish; suture slight; cavity shallow; clear 

 yellow with light bloom; flesh yellow, tender, rich, sweet, moderately juicy; good; 

 semi -clinging; mid-season. 

 Lyon Apricot. Domestica. i. Can. Exp. Farm Bui. 2d Ser. 3:53. 1901. 



Received by the British Columbia Experiment Station at Agassiz from a Mr. 

 Spaath of Berlin, Germany. Fruit above medium in size ; roundish; suture shallow ; bright 

 red; bloom thin; flesh yellow, firm, juicy, sprightly; good; stone slender, free ; early 

 M. J. De Wolf. Species? i. 5. Dak. Sta. Bui. 93:25, 52 fig. 1905. 



The most promising from a lot of seedlings grown by M. J. De Wolf, Letcher, South 

 Dakota, from seed taken from the orchard of H. J. Gurney, Elk Point, South Dakota. 

 Fruit large, roundish; cavity wide, shallow; suture a line; red marbled on the shady 

 side with yellow; dots many, large, conspicuous; flesh dark yellow, tender, sweet, 

 juicy; good; freestone; mid-season. 

 Macedonia. Munsoniana. i. Kerr Cat. 19. 1897. 2. Waugh Plum Cult. 186. 1901. 



Transparent 2. 



Fruit of medium size, roundish-oval; suture faint; cavity shallow; light red; 

 bloom thin; flesh yellow; quality fair; clingstone; mid-season. 

 Mackland. Americana, i. Kerr Cat. 1899. 



Tree vigorous; fruit above medium size, red over yellow; clingstone; rots badly. 

 Macomber. Domestica. Listed in Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 39. 1899. 

 Macomber No. i and No. 2. Americana. Letter from Kerr. 



Two inferior seedlings from a Mr. Macomber of Vermont. 

 Madame Henri Deschars. Insititia ? 1. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 439. 1889. 



Mirahelle Tardive Mme. H. Deschars i. 



Mathieu's notice refers to Journal de la Societe Nationale et Ccnirale d' Horticulture 

 de France 608. 1878. 



Madame NicoUe. Domestica. i. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 439. i88g. 2. Can. Exp. Farm 

 Bui. 2d Ser. 3:53. 1900. Souvenir de Madame Nicolle 1. 



A European variety tested on the grounds of the British Columbia Experimental 

 Station; inferior. 

 Madam Leeds. Species ? i. la. Sta. Bui. 46:279. 1900. 



A seedling unintroduced and of unknown parentage grown by George Temple, pre- 

 sumably of Iowa. Tree resembles Poole Pride, productive; fruit the size of Wild Goose, 

 bright red; drops easily; late. 

 Madeleine. Domestica? i, Mathieu A/om. Pow. 439. 1889. 2. Guide Prat. i$6, ^$g. i8gs. 



Tree vigorous, moderately productive ; fruit large, oval ; yellow with reddish spots ; 

 good; early. 



