1 6 Plums and Plum Culture 



to very large oval, or sometimes slightly obovate, with 

 taper points, glabrous above and finely tomentose beneath, 

 especially on the larger veins, margins rather finely ap- 

 pressed-serrate, petioles with two to six glands ; flowers 

 appearing comparatively late, in long dense clusters of 

 characteristic form. The buds are especially characteristic ; 

 clear white ; fruit usually strikingly spherical, or only a trifle 

 ovoid or ellipsoid, medium size, either bright transparent 

 cherry red or else whitish transparent yellow, quite different 

 from the opaque yellow of Kelsey or Golden Drop ; dots usually 

 large, whitish and conspicuous, bloom white, stone medium 

 size, rather turgid, cling. The quality averages high. The 

 flesh is almost always very firm and meaty. Represented in 

 such varieties as Wayland and Golden Beauty. This group is 

 somewhat numerously represented by plums growing wild in 

 western Texas. They may be regarded as hybrids between 

 forms of the Chicasaw and the Americana plums. 



The Wildgoose Group, Bailey. Primus hortulana, Bailey, 

 in part. The Wildgoose plums. Strong, wide-spreading, 

 small trees, with smooth, straight twigs, and a peach-like 

 habit ; flowers rather small, often very short-stalked ; leaves 

 narrow-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, thin and firm, flat, more or 

 less peach-like, smooth and shining, closely glandular-serrate ; 

 fruit spherical, bright colored and glossy, lemon yellow or 

 brilliant red, the bloom very thin, juicy, with a clinging, turgid 

 and roughish, small, pointed stone. Occurs wild in various 

 parts of the Mississippi valley, especially in the neighborhood 

 of St. Louis. Represented by Wildgoose, Milton, Downing, 

 and other cultivated varieties. 



Prunus angustifolia Marsh. — P. chicasa Michx. The 

 Chicasaw plum. Slender tree, 12-20 feet high, slender, zig- 

 zaged twigs ; smaller, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate leaves 

 which are very closely and finely serrate, shining and trough - 

 like ; fruit small, very early, red or rarely yellow, the skin thin 

 and shining and covered with many small, light dots and a 

 very thin bloom; the flesh soft and juicy, often stringy, closely 

 clinging to the small, broad, roughish stone. Wild from 

 Delaware south and west to Missouri and Texas. Repre- 

 sented in cultivation by numerous varieties, such as Newman, 

 Arkansas and Pottawattamie. 



Prunus angustifolia watsoni Waugh. — P. watsoni 

 Sargent. The Sandhill plum. A western extension of the 

 foregoing. Shrub 6-10 feet high; leaves ovate, acute, rounded 

 or wedge-shaped at the base, finely crenulate-serrate, lustrous 

 on the upper and pale on the lower surface; petioles slender, 

 grooved, bi-glandular at the apex; flowers in crowded, few- 

 flowered fascicles; calyx cup-shaped, the lobes acute, rounded 

 at the % apex, without glands, ciliate on the margins, pubescent 



