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without a suture. The colors are lemon yellow and 

 clear bright red, the latter predominating. The fruits 

 are nearly always marked with many large, conspicu- 

 ous yellow dots, and have a thin whitish bloom. The 

 flesh is always yellow, juicy and somewhat stringy, 

 with a sprightly vinous flavor. The stones are nearly 

 round, and are always turgid, — that is, thickened, in- 

 stead of being flattened sidewise like many of the 

 Americanas and Nigras. So far as I know they are 

 all clingstones. The fruit is often gathered from the 

 wild trees, and is used for jellies and preserves. 



The species does not usually succeed well north 

 of its natural limit, though several of the varieties do 

 fairly well in western New York. Pottawattamie, 

 which seems to be considerably hardier than the 

 others of this group, succeeds as far north as central 

 Iowa and Vermont. For general orchard planting, 

 however, the Chicasaws are not to be recommended 

 north of New York, Wheeling, West Virginia, Cin- 

 cinnati, St. Louis and Kansas City. 



