THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



veins; apex taper-pointed, margin very finely serrate, eglandular or sometimes with 

 small dark glands; petiole thirteen-sixteenths inch long, slender, tinged with red, 

 pubescent along one side, glandless or with from one to five small, globose, yellowish- 

 red glands usually on the stalk. 



Blooming season medium to late, long; flowers appearing after the leaves, one and 

 one-sixteenth inches across, the buds yellow-tipped changing to white when expanded, 

 with a strong, disagreeable odor; borne in dense clusters on lateral buds and spurs, in 

 threes ; pedicels eleven-sixteenths inch in length, very slender, glabrous, greenish ; calyx- 

 tube green, obconic, glabrous; calyx-lobes below medium in width, acute, finely pubes- 

 cent on the inner surface only, somewhat reflexed, glandular-serrate, the glands numer- 

 ous and dark colored; petals oval, narrow, long, crenate, tapering beneath to long, 

 narrow claws ; anthers pale yellow, with a faint reddish tinge ; filaments seven-sixteenths 

 inch in length; pistil slender, glabrous, shorter than the stamens. 



Fruit mid-season, ripening period short; about one and one-eighth inches in 

 diameter, rather large for its class, roundish-ovate, not compressed, halves equal; cavity 

 shallow, narrow, flaring; suture very shallow and obscure; apex roundish or slightly 

 conical; color garnet-red, with thin bloom; dots numerous, variable in size, grayish-yellow, 

 conspicuous, clustered around the apex; stem slender, about three-eighths inch in length, 

 glabrous, parting readily from the fruit; skin thin, slightly astringent, adhering but little; 

 flesh golden-yellow, juicy, coarse, fibrous, tender and somewhat melting, very sweet 

 next the skin but tart toward the center, aromatic; good; stone clinging, three-quarters 

 inch by one-half inch in size, oval, somewhat oblique, turgid, roughish; ventral suture 

 narrow, strongly winged; dorsal suture acute, unfurrowed. 



DRAP D'OR 



Prunus insititia 



i. Quintinye Com. Card. 2:69. 1699. 2. Langley Pomona 94, 97, PI. 24 fig. 5. 1729. 3. 

 Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:96. 1768. 4. Knoop Fructologie 57. 1771. 5. Coxe Cult. Fr. Trees 

 2 33 fig- 2 - 1817. 6. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 146. 1831. 7. Prince Pom. Man. 2:75. 1832. 8. 

 Kenrick Am. Orch. 261. 1832. 9. Mag. Hon. 9:163. 1843. IO - Do'wning Fr. Trees Am. 274. 

 1845. ii. Poiteau Pom. Franc. 1:1846. 12. Floy-Lindley Guide Orch. Card. 297, 383. 1846. 

 13. Thompson Card. Ass't 516. 1859. X 4- Hogg Fruit Man. 359, 371, 387. 1866. 15. Pom. 

 France 7:No. 12. 1871. 16. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 36. 1875. 17. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 350. 1887. 

 18. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 428. 1889. 19. Guide Prat. 153, 359. 1895. 20. Soc. Nat. Hort. France 

 Pom. 538 fig. 1904. 21. Baltet Cult. Fr. 489, 503. 1908. 



Cloth of Gold 3, 5, 7, 12, 14, 18, 19. Cloth of Gold Plum 15. Damas Jaune 15, 18, 19. Dop- 

 pelte Mirabelle 18. Drap d'Or i, 2. Drop d'Or Pflaume 15. Drap d'Or 7, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21. 

 Double Drap d'Or 17. Double Mirabelle 17. Glauzende gelbe Mirabelle 15. Glanzende Gelbe Mira- 

 belle 1 8, 19. Gold Pflaume 18. Goldfarbige Pflaume 15, 18, 19. Goldstoff 18. Goldzeng 18. Grosse 

 Mirabelle ?7, 15, 18, 19, 21. Grosse Mirabelle 8, 21. Grosse Mirabelle Drap d'Or 18, 19. Mirabelle 

 15, 17. Mirabelle Double 19, 21. Mirabelle Double 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13, 14, 18. Mirabelle Double 

 de Metz 20. Mirabelle de Nancy 19, 21. Mirabelle de Nancy 14, 18. Mirabelle Drap d'Or 15, 

 18, 19. Mirabellen 15. Mirabelle grosse double de Metz 15, 18, 19. Mirabelle Grosse de Nancy 

 20. Mirabelle Grosse 13, 17, 20, 21. Mirabelle la grosse 7, 15, 18, 19. Mirabelle Grosse 6, ?7, 10, 

 13, 14, 15, 19. Mirabelle PerUe 15, 18, 19. Mtrabelle von Metz 15. Perdrigon H&tif 13, 20, of 



