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color a metallic brownish-purple, overspread with thick bloom; skin thick, tough, some- 

 what astringent; flesh dull yellow, medium juicy, firm, moderately sweet; poor; stone 

 free, seven-eighths inch by one-half inch in size, irregular-ovate, abruptly contracted 

 at the base, with roughened surfaces; dorsal suture prominent. 



CRITTENDEN 



Primus insititia 



z. Hogg Fruit Man. 695. 1884. 2. Mathieu Nont. Pom. 426. 1889. 3. Am. Card. 14:146. 

 1893. 4. Gutde Prat. 163, 353. 1895. 5. Rural N. Y. 55:622. 1896. 6. Cornell Sta. Bui. 131: 

 184. 1897. 7. Garden 53:266. 1898. 8. Waugh Plum Cult. 127, 128. 1901. 



Crittenden's Damson 2. Crittenden's Prolific Damson 2. Crittenden's i. Crittenden's Pro- 

 lific i. Cluster i. Cluster 3, 8. Cluster Damson 2. Cluster Damson 4. Damson Cluster 4. 

 Farleigh Damson 6. Farleigh Prolific 7. Farleigh 5. Prolific i. Prolific Damson 2. 



This Damson came to notice early in the last century in the orchard 

 of James Crittenden of East Farleigh, Kent, England. In both Europe 

 and America it seems to be as well known under the names Farleigh and 

 Cluster as under its true name. Crittenden ranks high among the Dam- 

 sons in England but in America it is not a great favorite ; just why is hard 

 to say. It is likely that it fails in some tree-character, for, with the excep- 

 tion of being a little too tart, the fruit has few faults. 



Tree of medium size, upright-spreading, open-topped, productive; branches very 

 thorny and spinescent; branchlets pubescent throughout the season; leaf -buds plump; 

 leaves folded upward, obovate or oval, one and one-eighth inches wide, two and one- 

 half inches long, thin; margin finely serrate, with small dark glands; petiole one-half 

 inch long, glandless or with one or two glands; blooming season intermediate in time 

 and length; flowers appearing after the leaves, seven-eighths inch across, densely 

 clustered; borne usually in twos, fragrant. 



Fruit late, season of medium length; seven-eighths inch by three-quarters inch in 

 size, oval, slightly necked, purplish-black, overspread with very thick bloom; flesh 

 greenish-yellow, medium juicy, firm but tender, sour, sprightly; probably good for pre- 

 serves; stone clinging, five-eighths inch by three-eighths inch in size, oval, acute at the 

 base, with surfaces nearly smooth. 



CZAR 



Prunus domestica 



i. Hogg Fruit Man. 693. 1884. 2. Ellwanger & Barry Cat. 27. 1886. 3. Card. Chron. 10: 

 333. 1891. 4. Guide Prat. 153. 359. 1895. 5. Cornell Sta. Bui. 131:183. 1897. 6. Rivers Cat. 

 34. 1898. 7. Mich. Sta. Bui. 169:242, 244. 1899. 8. Ohio Sta. Bui. 113:159. 1899. 9. Waugh 

 Plum Cult. 99. 1901. 10. Thompson Card. Ass't 4:157. 1901. u. Nicholson Diet. Card. 3:166. 

 12. Garden 68:303. 1905. 13. Ohio Sta. Bui. 162:236, 237 fig., 234, 255. 1905. 



Le Czar 4. The Czar 2. 6, n. The Czar 4. 



