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as I recall it, is large, spreading and peach -like. The 

 leaves are long and peach -like, although rather broad 

 and short -pointed, but the flower-buds, although they 

 form in profusion, never open, so that the tree is bar- 

 ren. This is a hybrid between the Wild Goose and 

 Troth's Early peach. Twenty -five flowers of Wild 

 Goose were emasculated in the bud and covered with 

 paper sacks. When in full bloom, peach pollen was 

 applied, but the flowers were not again covered. 

 Twenty -one of the flowers set fruit, and twenty -one 

 trees were obtained from the seeds. Twenty of the 

 trees were indistinguishable from peach, but the re- 

 maining one, as indicated above, gives every evidence 

 of being an intermediate. 



The varieties that I have studied which fall into 

 Primus hortulana are as follows : 



Clara, Clark, Cumberland, Garfield, Golden Beauty, 

 Indian Chief, Kauawha, Missouri Apricot (Honey 

 Drop), Moreman, Mrs. Clifford, Pool's Pride, Reed, 

 Roulette, Saffold, Sophie, Sucker State, Texas Belle, 

 Wayland, Whitaker, Wild Goose, Wooten, World 

 Beater. 



To the Miner sub-group I should refer the follow- 

 ing varieties: 



Clinton, Forest Rose, Idol, Indiana Red, Iris, Langs- 

 don, Leptune, Miner, Prairie Flower, Rachel. 



Since the above account of the hortulana plums 

 was written, Waugh has given the group independent 

 study, and writes of it as follows:* 



When, in 1892, Professor Bailey proposed the species Prtinus 

 hortulana to include the Wild Goose plum and its nearest rela- 

 tives, it was at first a relief and afterward a puzzle to horticul- 



*"The New View of the Hortulana Plums," Garden and Forest, Sept. 1, 1897. 



