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tree, shaggy; branches rather rough, zigzag and inclined to split, thorny, dark ash- 

 brown, with numerous, small lenticels; branchlets thick, long, willowy, with short 

 internodes, greenish changing to dark chestnut-red, glossy, with thin pubescence when 

 young, which disappears in autumn, with conspicuous, numerous raised lenticels; leaf- 

 buds small, short, obtuse, plump, appressed. 



Leaves falling early, folded upward, elongated-oval, or obovate, peach-like, one and 

 three-quarters inches wide, four and one-quarter inches long, thin and leathery; upper 

 surface smooth, with a shallow, grooved midrib; lower surface silvery-green, pubescent; 

 apex taper-pointed, base somewhat abrupt, margin doubly crenate, glandular; petiole 

 three-quarters inch long, sparingly pubescent, faintly tinged with red, usually with 

 two conspicuous, globose, brownish glands below the base of the leaf. 



Blooming season late and long; flowers appearing with the leaves; seven-eighths 

 inch across, white, with a strong, disagreeable odor; borne in dense but scattering clus- 

 ters on lateral buds and spurs, in threes or in fours; pedicels nine-sixteenths inch in 

 length, slender, glabrous, greenish; calyx- tube green, narrowly campanulate or ob- 

 conic, glabrous ; calyx-lobes narrow, obtuse, slightly pubescent, margined with few hairs 

 and with dark-colored glands, slightly reflexed; petals oval, erose, tapering to long 

 claws of medium width; anthers yellowish; filaments seven-sixteenths inch in length; 

 pistil glabrous, shorter than the stamens. 



Fruit variable in season which is usually late and short; about one and one-eighth 

 inches in diameter, rather large, roundish-ovate or nearly oval, slightly compressed, 

 halves equal; cavity shallow, wide, flaring; suture a line; apex roundish or somewhat 

 pointed; color light or dark red, with thin bloom; dots numerous, russet, conspicuous; 

 stem slender, five-eighths inch long, glabrous, detaching from the fruit at maturity; 

 skin thick, tough, slightly astringent, adhering ; flesh dark golden-yellow, juicy, coarse, 

 fibrous, melting, sweetish next the skin but rather sour toward the center, with a strong 

 and peculiar flavor, aromatic; fair to good; stone clinging, three-quarters inch by 

 five-eighths inch in size, oval, turgid, blunt and slightly flattened at the base, ending 

 in an abrupt but sharp point at the apex, nearly smooth ; ventral suture narrow, faintly 

 ridged; dorsal suture acute. 



FOREST ROSE 



Prunus hortulana mineri 



I. Mich. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 290. 1889. 2. la. Hon. Soc. Rpt. 55. 1890. 3. Cornell Sta. Bid. 

 38:55, 86. 1892. 4. Mich. Sta. Bui. 123:19. 1895. 5. la. Sta. Bui. 31:346. 1895. 6. Colo. Sta. 

 .61^.50:36. 1898. 7. Ohio Sta. Bui. 113:154. 1899. 8. Waugh Plum Cult. 173. 1901. 9. Budd- 

 Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 296. 1903. 



Forest Rose, like Forest Garden, belongs to Prunus hortulana mineri, the 

 two being similar in many respects. Forest Rose, however, is not as attract- 

 ive in color as the other variety, the difference not being well brought out in 

 the color-plates, is smaller and does not keep nor ship quite as well. The 

 variety under discussion is better in quality than Forest Garden and better 



