78 



500 YEARBOOK OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Form roundish conical; size medium to large, the later ripening 

 fruits being smaller than the earlier ones; cavity large, regular, deep, 

 abrupt; stem rather stout; suture shallow; apex rather prominent; 

 surface smooth, thickly covered with long, loose, velvety down; color 

 greenish white, striped and mottled with purplish red; skin thick, 

 tenacious; flesh whitish, considerably stained and veined with red, 

 meaty, tender, and juicy; stone of medium size, oval, free; 

 flavor subacid, rich; quality good to very good. Season, July 1 to 

 September 1 or later in southern Georgia. 



Tree vigorous, compact, productive; glands ren if orm; flowers large. 



The specimen illustrated on Plate LXI was grown at Augusta, Ga. 



GOLDEN PLUM. 



(SYNONYM: Gold.) 



[PLATE LXII.] 



Of the hybrid plums originated by Luther Burbank that have been 

 introduced for a sufficient time to render a forecast of their climatic 

 requirements possible, this variety appears adapted to the widest geo- 

 graphical range. The original tree was grown in 1887 or 1888, by Mr. 

 Burbank, from a seed of Robinson (Prunus angmtifolia), which was 

 the result of a cross with pollen of Abundance (synon} T tns Botan, Yel- 

 low-fleshed Botan, Sweet Botanot Burbank, but not of others), one of 

 the best known and most widely grown of the Japanese plums in 

 America. It was named ' " Golden " by Mr. Burbank in 1892, and a brief 

 description of the variety, based on specimens submitted by him, was 

 published in the Report of the Pomologist of the Department of Agri- 

 culture for that year. a It was catalogued and illustrated by Mr. Bur- 

 bank under this name in his catalogue of New Creations in Fruits and 

 Flowers, June, 1893. About that time the original tree and the right 

 of introduction were purchased by the Stark Brothers Nurseries and 

 Orchards Company, of Louisiana, Mo., which catalogued it for dissemi- 

 nation in the autumn of 1894 under the name "Gold," which was 

 registered as a trade-mark in the United States Patent Office on Feb- 

 ruary 26, 1895. The prior application and publication of the name 

 "Golden" entitles it to precedence under the code of nomenclature of 

 the American Pomological Society and it has, therefore, been generally 

 adopted by pomologists. 



The variety has been planted in most of our plum districts, and, 

 while not of the highest dessert quality, is a hardy, productive, and 

 excellent fruit in most of the territory where either the Japanese or 

 the Chickasaw plums succeed. 



"Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, 1892, p. 263. 



