ROSACEA 



WILD PLUM, Primus communis. 



Copses, hedgerows. March, April. 



Floxoers white, appearing with leaves ; pedicels solitary or in pairs, glabrous ; 

 Fruit a drupe, oblong, variable in shape and colour, pendent, 1-1^ in. diam. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate ; downy on ribs beneath, convolute, acute, crenated 

 or biserrate, petiolate ; stipules linear, persistent. 



A deciduous tree, 20 ft. ; Branches straight, without spines ; shoots glabrous ; 

 Bark brown ; Twigs glabrous, slightly angular above, red, passing to grey ; 

 Buds conoid-pointed ; Wood used in small turnery. 



Found in an apparently wild state, being self-sown, but not truly indigenous ; 

 Syn. P. domestica. Name Plum from A.S. plume, a plum ; L. prunus, a plum. 



Insects injurious to Plums: — Bark — Fruit-tree Bark Beetle {Scolytus 

 rugulosus), Mussel Scale (Mytilaspis pomorum) ; Leaves — Plum Aphis (Aphis 

 pruni), Oblong Weevil {Phyllobius oblongus), Vapourer Moth (Orygia antiqua), 

 Winter Moth (Cheimatobia brumata), March Moth {Anisopteryx cescularia), 

 Cherry and Pear Saw-fly (Selandria atra); Wood — Shot-borer Beetle (Xyle- 

 borus dispar), Goat Moth (Cossus ligniperda or Trypanus cossus), Wood 

 Leopard Moth (Zeuzera oesculi or Z. pyrina). 



Fungoid Pests: — Plum-tree Rust (Puccinia Pruni), Plum Pockets or 

 Bladder Plums (Exoascus insititice), Plum-tree Mildew (Podosphcera tridactyla). 



BULLACE, Prunus insititia. 



Woods, thickets, hedges. March, April. 



Flowers white, as in Sloe, but appearing with leaves ; pedicels in pairs, 

 downy ; Petals broader ; Fruit a drupe, globose, glabrous, black or yellow, 

 drooping, f— 1 in. diam. 



Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, downy beneath, larger, broader, more 



coarsely toothed, convolute, acute, serrate, pubescent, become glabrous above, 



If— 2^ ins. x 1-1} in. ; stipules linear, pubescent. 



A deciduous shrub, 10-15 ft. ; Branches round, only slightly spinous, 



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