THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 155 



BASSETT 



Prunus maritima 



i. Card. Man. 17:335. 1875. 2. Cornell Sta. Bui. 38:75. 1892. 3. Bailey Ev. Nat. Fruits 

 214. 1898. 4. Waugh Plum Cult. 229. 1901. 5. Ohio Sta. Bui. 162:254, 255. 1905. 6. S. Dak. 

 Sta. Bui. 93:10. 1905. 



Bassett's American a, 3. Bassett's American 4. 



Bassett, the best known of the few cultivated varieties of Prunus 

 maritima, was found growing wild in New Jersey and was turned over 

 to a nurseryman, Wm. F. Bassett of Hamilton, New Jersey, who intro- 

 duced it in 1872. After its introduction it became somewhat popular in 

 the West, gaining quite a reputation as being "curculio proof." However, its 

 marked inferiority to varieties of other species, in both size and quality, 

 has now banished it from all commercial plantings. The following descrip- 

 tion is compiled. 



Tree vigorous, spreading. Fruit late mid-season; very small, roundish, dull red, 

 covered with thin bloom; skin thick, tough; flesh greenish-yellow; quality poor; stone 

 of medium size, roundish, smooth, free. 



BAVAY 



Prunus domestica 



i. Card. Chron. 6:65. 1846. 2. Mag. Hort. 12:340. 1846. 3. Horticulturist 1:527. 1846. 

 4. Lee Gen. Farmer 10:241. 1849. 5. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 328. 1849. 6. Elliott . Fr. Book 423. 

 1854. 7. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 210. 1856. 8. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 370. fig. 1857. 9- U- $ 

 D. A. Rpt. 190, PI. XII. 1865. 10. Hogg Frmt Man. 379. 1866. n. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 

 897. 1869. 12. Pom. France 7:Nb. 6. 1871. 13. Mas Le Verger 6:93, fig. 47. 1866. 14. Ober- 

 dieck Deut. Obst. Sort. 437. 1881. 15. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 363. 1887. 16. Rev. Hort. 515. 

 1888. 17. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 422. 1889. 18. Mich. Sta. Bui. 129:32, 33. 1896. 19. Cornell 

 Sta. Bui. 131:191. 1897. 20. Mich. Sta. Bui. 169:241, 242. 1899. 21. Waugh Plum Cuti. 96. 

 1901. 22. Va. Sta. Bui. 134:40. 1902. 23. Ohio Sta. Bui. 162:241. 1905. 



Bavay's Green Gage 17, 21. Bavay's Green Gage n. Bavay's renkloie 12. Bavay's Reine 

 Claude 17. Bavays Reine-Claude 13. De Bavay i$. Monstreusede Bavay 15. Monstrueuse de Bavay 

 10, ii, 12, 17. Prune de Bavay 12, 17. Queen Claude of Bavay 6. Reine Claude 21, 23. Reine- 

 Claude de Bavay 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 19. Reine-Claude de Bavay 6, n, 13, 17, 18, 21. 

 Reine-Claude Monstreuse de Bavey i. Reine-Claude Monot 17. Reine-Claude von Bavays 14. 

 St. Claire 10. Saint Clair n, 17. Sainte-Claire 17. Saint-Claire 12. 



Bavay is one of the best of the green plums a worthy rival in all 

 respects and in some superior to its parent Reine Claude. It is unexcelled 

 as a dessert plum and its delicious flavor is retained in cooking, making 

 the somewhat rare combination of a first rate dessert and a first rate culi- 

 nary fruit. Bavay is not only satisfactory in the qualities which make 

 it desirable to the consumer but it is a good market plum for it both keeps 



