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suture distinct; apex roundish or pointed; color light and dark shades of red over 

 yellow, mottled, with occasional splashes of russet and with a thick but delicate bloom; 

 dots numerous, small, russet or yellow, conspicuous unless obscured by the bloom, clustered 

 around the apex ; stem thick, one-half inch long, adhering to the fruit ; skin medium in 

 thickness, tender, bitter, separating easily; flesh golden-yellow, very juicy, coarse and 

 fibrous, tender, somewhat melting when fully ripe, sweet, although somewhat tart at the 

 center, sprightly, with characteristic Triflora flavor; good; stone clinging, three-quarters 

 inch by one-half inch in size, oval, turgid, slightly necked, with pitted surfaces; ventral 

 suture wide; dorsal suture unfurrowed. 



CHALCO 



Prunus simonii X Prunus triflora 



I. Burbank Cat. 4. 1898. 2. Rural N. Y. 57:184, 633. 1898. 3. Vt. Sta. Bui. 67:8. 1898. 

 4. Vt. Sta. An. Rpt. 14:273. 1901. 5. Go.. Sta. Bui. 68:12, 35. 1903. 



Chalco has been extensively advertised by several nurseries but, from 

 the reports received, it is doubtful if it will ever be grown commercially. 

 The trees, in the East at least, are slow in coming into bearing; the fruits 

 are small; and the flavor such that consumers will have to learn to like 

 it although it is much better in quality than the Simon plum, one of its 

 parents, being quite free from the bitterness of this parent. The tree is 

 rather better than that of the Simon plum or of the Wickson, the two plums 

 with which it must be compared. The amateur may care to plant Chalco 

 but here its usefulness ends. Burbank in introducing this plum in 1898, 

 stated that it was the first fruit offered after twelve years' work in crossing 

 Prunus simonii with Prunus triflora and American species. The parentage 

 of Chalco is given as a Simon-Burbank cross. The following description 

 is compiled: 



Tree vigorous, upright or somewhat vasiform, very productive; leaves large, dark 

 green. Fruit matures shortly before Burbank; large when well grown, oblate, dark 

 red; flesh yellowish, firm, very juicy, aromatic, sweet; good; stone small, oval, slightly 

 flattened, semi- free. 



CHAMBOURCY 



Prunus domestica 



I. Rev. Hon. 39. 1898. a. Soc. Nat. Hort. France Pom. 560, fig. 1904. 3. Can. Exp. Farms 

 Rpt. 433. 1905. 4. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 473 fig. 1906. 



Reine-Claude Tardive De Chambourcy 2. Reine-Claude Tardive Latinois i. Reine-Claude Tardive 

 de Chambourcy i. Reine-Claude Latinois 2, 4. Reine-Claude tardive i. Reine-Claude Verte 4. 

 Reine-Claude Tardive 2, 4. Reine-Claude de Chambourcy 3. Tardive de Chambourcy 4. 



This fruit was found at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century at 

 Chambourcy, France, in the garden of M. Bourgeois; no record of its par- 



