208 Plums and Plum Culture 



Said to be "Smelt cherry x Abundance." This plum is 

 evidently of the same parentage as Marble, though different 

 pedigrees are given by the originator. Both are worth propa- 

 gating. Both suggest Myrobalan. The probable parentage 

 seems to be Prunus triftora x P. cerasifera. Received from 

 the originator, A. L. Bruce, Texas. 



CULBERSON. Parentage the same as Marble. Fruit spher- 

 ical or slightly pointed; size medium to large; color dark, 

 solid red; dots very many, yellow; bloom bluish; skin very 

 thick and tough; flesh yellow; stone small, round, flattened, 

 cling; quality good to best. 



A fine plum. From A. L. Bruce, Basin Springs, Texas, 

 tinder name of Mammoth July, but named Culberson by the 

 writer in Vermont Experiment station Report 12:223, 1899. 

 Not yet introduced. 



DAISY. P. angustifolia x P. triflora. Fruit heart- 

 shaped; size medium to large; cavity shallow, rounded; stem 

 medium ; suture obsolete or nearly so ; apex pointed ; color 

 the finest bright red: dots many, minute, yellow; bloom light 

 bluish ; skin thin but firm ; flesh firm, yellow ; stone large, 

 oval, pointed, flattened, cling ; flavor sprightly, Chicasaw-like ; 

 quality good. Leaf small, narrow, tapering at both ends, 



