UNTESTED VARIETIES, ETC. 441 



ready sale. It requires root-pruning every two years, in order to make it 

 productive. Branches, smooth. Fruit, small, round, yellow, and red, 

 shaded and mottled ; flesh, greenish, juicy, pleasant, adhering closely to an 

 oval stone ; stalk, short ; cavity, narrow. Middle of July. The Chickasaw 

 Plum (Prunus Chicasi) is very similar to this. 



COLUMBIA. 



Columbian Gage. 



American. Valuable market sort, productive, succeeds well South ; 

 branches downy. Fruit, large, globular, one side enlarged ; skin, brownish 

 purplish, with fawn-colored specks, blue bloom ; flesh, orange, rather coarse, 

 dry but sugary, separates freely from stone, which is small, compressed j 

 stalk, an inch long ; cavity, small, narrow. Last August. 



COOPER. 

 Cooper's Bed, | Cooper's Large Bed, | Cooper's Large American. 



American. Described by Coxe. in 1817, as grown from a stone of Or- 

 leans. Some writers state it to be identical with " Smith's Orleans ;" but 

 we do not so consider it. Fruit, large, deep purple, with a bloom ; suture, 

 shallow and broad ; stem, three-quarters inch long ; flesh, coarse, yellow ; 

 " good." Last August. 



CRUGER'S SCARLET. 



Cruger's, | Cruger's Seedling, | Cruger's Scarlet Gage. 



American. Productive, and comparatively free from attacks of curculio , 

 branches, downy. Fruit, little above medium, roundish oval ; skin, lilac 

 red, with thin bluish bloom and yellow dots, in dark shade one side, pale 

 fawn color ; flesh, orange, rather dry, rich, separates free from stone ; stalk, 

 half-inch long; basin, shallow. Last August. 



DANA'S YELLOW GAGE. 



American. Branches, downy. Fruit, medium, oval, pale yellow ; flesh, 

 yellowish. Cling-stone. September. 



DE DELICE. 



Foreign. New ; branches, smooth. Fruit, medium, roundish oval, slight 

 neck, little swollen one side; suture, nearly indistinct; skin, green, marb- 

 led and shaded with violet, and covered with thin bloom ; stalk, medium 

 length and size ; flesh, orange yellow, juicy, melting, sugary, rich flavor, 

 adheres slightly to the stone. September. 



DE MONTFORT. 



Foreign. Branches, downy. Fruit, above medium, roundish, light pur- 

 ple, spotted with brownish yellow, and with blue bloom ; flesh, light yel- 

 low, rich ; when fully ripe parts freely from stone ; stalk, half-inch long. 

 Middle August. 



DENISTON'S RED. 



American. Branches, smooth. Fruit, medium, roundish oval ; suture, 

 half round ; skin, light red, with fawn-colored dots, bloom, thin ; flesh, am- 

 ber color, separates freely from a small, oval, compressed stone ; stalk, 

 long, slender. Last August. 

 19* 



