THE PLUM IN KANSAS. 15 



C. Americana Plums (Pseudoprioms). Flowers single or um- 

 bellate, white or jjale rose color; leaves in the bud folded lengthwise 

 along the midrib.* 



Canada Plum (P. nigra Aiton). A small tree, with broadly ob- 

 long-ovate to obovate leaves, the leafstalks bearing two glands ; 

 calyx lobes glandular-serrate ; fruit oblong-oval, one to one and a 

 quarter inches long, with a tough, thick, orange-red skin and yellow 

 flesh ; stone compressed. Original distribution : In Canada, from 

 Newfoundland to the Assiniboin river, and probably in the northern 

 portion of the United States. Since this species has been confused 

 with the next one it is difficult to say what cultivated varieties have 

 sprung from it. Professor Sargent says, in the Silva of North Amer- 

 ica: "Some attention has been paid in Canada to selecting the begt 

 wild varieties for cultivation. Varieties of this species are propagated 

 and sold by nurserymen in some of the Western states, and to it can 

 be referred the well-known Purple Yosemite, Quaker and Weaver 

 plums." 



Common Wild Plum (P. amcricana Marsh.) A small tree, with 

 oval or slightly obovate leaves, the leafstalks without glands ; calyx 

 lobes entire ; fruit globose, one inch or less in diameter, with a tough, 

 thick, red skin and yellow flesh ; stone turgid. Original distribution : 

 New York, New Jersey, and Florida, to Montana, Colorado, and New 

 Mexico. In Nebraska it is found in a wild condition in every part of 

 the state. This has been very prolific in cultivated varieties. Profes- 

 sor Sargent refers the following varieties to this species : De Soto, 

 Itaska, Forest Garden, Louisa, Minnetonka, Cheney, Deep Creek, 

 Kickapoo, Forest Rose, and Miner; but Professor Bailey refers the 

 last named to P. hortulana. 



Wild Goose Plum {P. horfulaaa Bailey). A small tree, with 

 ovate-lanceolate leaves, the leafstalk bearing glands ; calyx lobes 

 glandular- serrate; fruit globose, two-thirds of an inch in diameter, 

 with a thick, red or yellow skin and hard, thin flesh ; stone turgid. 

 Original distribution : In the Mississippi valley, from central Illinois 

 southward. The cultivated varieties referred to this species by Pro- 

 fessor Bailey are Wild Goose, Golden Beauty, Missouri Apricot, 

 Moreman, Reed, Roulette, Wayland, and Miner. 



*A11 the American species of plums here indicated are more nearly related to 

 the cherries (section B, Cerasus) than to the true plums (section E, Prunophora) 

 of the old world; and they might quite properly bear the general name of 

 "Cherry plums." Doctor Koehne, indeed, in his "Deutsche Dendrologie," goes 

 so far as to include them all in the cherry section of the genus Prunus. I prefer, 

 however, to follow Doctor Dippel (Handbuch der Laubholzkunde, pp. 622-629 ) in 

 assigning them to a separate but closely allied section {PHCudoprunus), which 

 translated means literally the "false plums." 



