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variety, hence the rather full description which follows of a plum which 

 cannot be recommended. The variety was sent here in 1890 from North 

 Ferrisburg, Vermont, by L. M. Macomber. 



Tree large and vigorous, spreading, dense-topped, very productive; branches 

 rough, the bark marked by concentric rings, with numerous spurs and with many, 

 small, raised lenticels; branchlets short, pubescent; leaf-scars swollen; leaves folded 

 upward, oval, one and three-quarters inches wide, three inches long, rather thick and 

 leathery; margin doubly crenate, eglandular or with small, dark glands; petiole pubes- 

 cent, tinged red, glandless or with from one to three globose glands usually at the 

 base of the leaf; blooming season of medium length; flowers over one inch across, 

 white with yellowish tinge near the apex of the petals; borne on lateral buds and spurs, 

 singly or in pairs. 



Fruit mid-season; one and one-half inches by one and five-eighths inches in size, 

 nearly roundish, dull light yellow, sometimes mottled with red on the exposed cheek, 

 overspread with thin bloom; skin thin, sour ; flesh greenish-yellow, tender and melting, 

 sweet near the surface but acid at the center, mild, pleasant, but not high-flavored; 

 stone clinging, three-quarters inch by five-eighths inch in size, nearly round, turgid ; sur- 

 faces pitted; ventral suture broad, heavily furrowed, with a short, distinct wing. 



CLYMAN 

 Prunus domestica 



i. U. S. D. A. Rpt. 574. 1888. 2. Cat. State Board Hon. 236, 239, PI. II figs. 3 and 4. 1890. 

 3. Wickson Cal. Fruits 358. 1891. 4. Am. Pom. Sac. Cat. 25. 1897. 5. N. Mex. Sta. Bui. 27:124. 

 1898. 6. Ohio Sta. Bui. 113:158. 1899. 7. Waugh Plum Cuti. 98. 1901. 8. Ohio Sta. Bui. 

 162:236, 237 fig., 254, 255. 1905. 



Clyman has special merit as one of the earliest good Domesticas. 

 The fruit resembles that of Lombard somewhat, but is smaller and is much 

 better in .quality. As grown in California the Clyman commands high 

 prices for shipping eastward. Whether it could be grown profitably in 

 the East remains to be seen but it deserves to be rather widely tested for 

 an early home and market plum. In New York it has a few serious faults: 

 the plums are susceptible to rot, they drop as soon as ripe and the 

 trees seem not to be quite hardy at Geneva; though in the Ohio reference 

 given above they are said to be " rather hardier than those of most other 

 European sorts." Otherwise than in hardiness the trees at this place are 

 quite satisfactory. The variety is characterized by very long stamens. 

 Clyman is well deserving of trial with the possibility that it may prove 

 to be the best of our early Domesticas. 



This plum was raised from a Peach plum stone planted in 1866, by 

 Mrs. Hannah Clyman, Napa City, Napa Valley, California. The original 



