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THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



Blooming season early and short; flowers appearing with the leaves, white; borne 

 in dense clusters on the lateral buds and spurs, in threes ; pedicels one-quarter inch long, 

 thick, glabrous; calyx-tube green, obconic, glabrous; calyx-lobes broad, obtuse, gland- 

 ular-serrate, glabrous, erect; petals broadly oval, entire, short-clawed; anthers yellow- 

 ish; filaments one-quarter inch long; pistil glabrous, longer than the stamens. 



Fruit early, season long; variable in size, large when the tree is not overloaded, 

 one and three-quarters inches in diameter, roundish-conic, halves equal; cavity deep, 

 abrupt, regular; suture shallow; apex roundish; color dark red over a yellow ground, 

 mottled, with thick bloom; dots numerous, large, russet, conspicuous; stem five-eighths 

 inch long, glabrous, parting readily from the fruit; skin thin, tough, sour, separating 

 from the pulp; flesh deep yellow, juicy, tender, firm, sweet, aromatic; good; stone 

 clinging, three-quarters inch by five-eighths inch in size, roundish-oval, turgid, blunt 

 but sharp- tipped, roughish ,with a slightly winged ventral suture; dorsal suture acute. 



CHABOT 



Prunus triflora 



i. Ga. Hon. Soc. Rpt. 29. 1886. 2. Ibid. 52, 99. 1889. 3. Am. Card. 12:501. 1891. 4. Ibid. 

 13:700. 1892. 5. Rev. Hort. 132, PL 537. 1892. 6. Cornell Sta. Bui. 62:20, 22, 28. 1894. 7. Ibid. 

 106:44, 48, 51, 60. 1896. 8. Rogers Cat. 9. 1896. 9. Cornell Sta. Bui. 139:38. 1897. 10. Am. 

 Pom.-Soc. Cat. 26. 1897. n. Cornell Sta. Bui. 175:150. 1899. 12. Waugh Plum Cuti. 134, 135 

 fig. 1901. 13. Can. Exp. Farm Bui. 43:37. 1903. 14. Ohio Sta. Bui. 162:250, 254, 255, 256, 257. 

 1905. 15. Ga. Sta. Bui. 68:12, 14, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32. 1905. 



Babcock 15. Babcock ?is. Bailey 3, 4, 6, 7. Bailey 9, n, 12, 15. Chase 9, 15. Chabot 15. 

 Douglas 15. Furugiya 7, 15. Furugiya n, 12, 15. Hytankayo 14. Hytankayo 15. Hon-smomo 

 15. O-Hatankyo n. Orient 6, 7. Orient 14. O-hattankio 15. Paragons. Red Nagateot some 7. 

 Uchi Beni of some n. Yellow Japan 9, n, 12. 



When properly handled the fruits of Chabot are far the most attract- 

 ive of the many Triflora plums. They are large, beautifully molded 

 and handsomely mottled in shades of red over yellow with occasional 

 splashes of russet and a heavy but delicate bloom. To secure the best 

 coloring, the fruit must be picked before ripe and be matured in dark stor- 

 age . Early picking is necessary also because the season of ripening is very long 

 and the fruit drops badly if permitted to hang to the trees until fully ripe. 

 There should be at least three pickings for this variety. Unfortunately, 

 the quality of Chabot belies its appearance, being at best not above the 

 average. The fruits are firm and ship well and keep rather better than 

 those of any other plum of its species. The trees are hardy and depend- 

 able in bearing but not as productive as could be wished. The blossoms 

 of Chabot open later than those of most other Trifloras, enabling this 

 sort occasionally to escape frosts which injure other varieties of this species. 

 The stamens are often short, undeveloped and wholly or in part sterile. 



