188 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



DE CARADEUC 



Prunus cerasifera 



i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 86. 1871. 2. Am. Pom. Soc, Cat. 38. 1877. 3. Barry FT. Garden 

 418. 1883. 4. Cornell Sta. Bui. 38:66, 71, 86. 1892. 5. Bailey Ev. Nat. Fruits 212. 1898. 6. 

 Vt. Sta. An. Rpt. 13:369. 1900. 7. Waugh Plum Cult. 230. 1901. 8. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. 

 Man. 310. 1903. 9. Ga. Sta. Bui. 67:274. 1904. 10. Ga. Hort. Soc. Cat. 13. 1905. 



Caradeuc i. 



De Caradeuc is without value in this climate for its fruit and is 

 described at length and illustrated in The Plums of New York only because 

 it is one of the few representatives of Prunus cerasifera cultivated for its 

 fruit. The plums are garnet-red, very attractive in appearance and are 

 borne so much earlier than those of other species that the variety may 

 be worth planting in home orchards to lengthen the season and for the 

 sake of variety. This plum is grown rather commonly in the South where 

 the fruits are said to keep well and not rot. The trees are handsome 

 ornamentals bearing remarkably rich, green foliage and a profusion of 

 white flowers which are followed by beautifully colored fruits. The variety 

 can be recommended for lawn or park where a small, compact, flowering 

 tree is wanted. 



De Caradeuc originated with A. De Caradeuc, Aiken, South Carolina, 

 between 1850 and 1854. Mr. De Caradeuc brought plum trees from France 

 and planted them in the vicinity of several native plum trees. From the 

 seed of the former he produced this variety. The originator believed his 

 new plum to be a hybrid but practically all students of plum botany think 

 that it is a pure offshoot of Prunus cerasifera. The variety was introduced 

 by P. J. Berckmans of Augusta, Georgia. In 1877 De Caradeuc was placed 

 on the American Pomological Society fruit catalog list where it is still 

 maintained. 



Tree very large, vigorous, spreading, open-topped, variable in productiveness; 

 trunk rough; branches slender, roughish or smooth, dark ash-gray, with numerous, 

 large, raised lenticels; branchlets very numerous, twiggy, slender, medium to long, 

 with long internodes, tinged with red when young, changing to dull reddish-brown, 

 glossy, glabrous, with few, small lenticels; leaf-buds very small and short, obtnise, 

 appressed. 



Leaves numerous on the branchlets, becoming scattering in the interior of the tree, 

 folded upward, oval, one and one-eighth inches wide, two inches long, thin; upper 

 surface dark green, sparingly pubescent, smooth, with broadly grooved midrib; lower 

 surface pale green, pubescent ; apex acute, base broadly cuneate, margin often in two 

 series of fine serrations, without glands; petiok slender, one-half inch long, slightly 



