TYPICAL VARIETIES 179 



the plums were large and thick-skinned, often flat- 

 tened, and bearing a distinct suture or groove, the 

 flesh firm and meaty, and the stone usually large and 

 often very flat. The tree, too, is of a different 

 type, being a stiff grower, with dull shoots and large, 

 heavy, dull, more or less obovate and coarsely toothed 

 leaves, while those in the South are slender, 

 twiggy growers, with bright or light -colored shoots, 

 and more slender and often peach -like, closely toothed 

 leaves. The settlers in Wisconsin, northern Illinois, 

 Minnesota and Iowa found this type of plum abun- 

 dant in the timber belts. Very often trees were found 

 bearing fruit of unusual size and excellence. Such 

 trees were removed to gardens, or seeds of them were 

 sown, and very soon a new race of plums had come 

 into cultivation. 



The Wolf was one of the first of these varieties 

 to be named. This originated on the farm of D. B. 

 Wolf, Wapello county, Iowa, about forty years ago, 

 from pits said to have been gathered from wild trees. 



The Rollingstone is one of the prominent varieties 

 of this type. It was found nearly forty years ago 

 on the bank of the Rollingstone Creek, Winona 

 county, Minnesota, by O. M. Lord, and he intro- 

 duced it to public notice about fifteen years ago. 

 The fruit of the Rollingstone is very large (often 1% 

 inches each in diameter), round, flattened and truncate 

 at the ends, mottled and spotted pink -purple, skin very 

 thick ; flesh firm, sweet and excellent ; semi-cling, 

 stone nearly circular, rather flat, sharp on the back 

 edge, nearly smooth ; leaves large and firm. 



The Quaker was found wild by Joseph Bundy, of 

 Springville, Linn county, Iowa. It was disseminated 



