The Americana Plums Described 167 



WOLF. Fruit oval or round oval ; size medium to large ; 

 cavity shallow; suture a faint line; color crimson over 

 orange, marked like a bird's egg; dots several, red, pretty; 

 bloom bluish ; skin thick, tough ; flesh yellow ; stone medium 

 large, oval, slightly flattened, perfectly free; quality fair to 

 good, season medium early; tree a good grower and pro- 

 ductive. 



Originated on the farm of D. B. Wolf. Wapello county, 

 Iowa, about 1852. One of the most popular'of all native plums. 

 Professor Goff says of it: "No variety has been more gen- 



erally commended than this. It is pronounced productive and 

 regular in bearing from southern Iowa and Nebraska to Stone- 

 wall, Manitoba, and appears to be generally satisfactory. Some 

 regard it rather too acid for culinary use." 



WONDER (Nebraska Wonder of Sayles). "Fruit large, 

 round, a trifle smaller but resembling Green Gage in color, 

 form and flavor; slight yellow tinge, mottled red when over- 

 ripe, without astringency ; ships well ; season ten days earlier 

 than Miner. Tree dwarfish, symmetrical, spreading, exceed- 

 ingly prolific and a very early bearer." Craig. 



Found wild in 1892 by A. Webster, Burt county, Nebraska; 

 introduced by H. P. Sayles, Ames, Iowa, in 1897. 



