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adapted than the last named variety for the home orchard at least. While 

 somewhat variable in productiveness, in most localities it bears annually 

 and abundantly. The trees are rather more thorny than most of its 

 species. 



This variety is said by H. A. Terry of Crescent, Iowa, to be a seedling 

 of Miner, grown by Scott & Company, a Missouri nursery firm, and intro- 

 duced by William Stark, Louisiana, Missouri, in 1878. Terry offers no 

 evidence to show that this plum is a seedling of Miner and there is a question 

 as to whether more is really known of its parentage other than that it 

 came from Missouri. 



Tree medium to large, intermediate in vigor, upright-spreading, open-topped, 

 hardy, variable in productiveness somewhat susceptible to attacks of shot-hole fungus; 

 trunk very rough and shaggy; branches rough, thorny, dark ash-gray, with numerous 

 lenticels; branchlets numerous, slender, variable in length, with internodes of medium 

 length, green changing to dull reddish-brown, glossy, glabrous, with numerous, small, 

 raised lenticels; leaf -buds small, short, obtuse, appressed. 



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

 inches wide, four inches long, thin; upper surface dull red in the fall, rugose, glabrous, 

 with the midrib and larger veins deeply grooved; lower surface light green, somewhat 

 pubescent along the midrib; apex acuminate, base acute, margin crenate or serrate, 

 with small, dark glands; petiole slender, five-eighths inch in length, sparsely pubes- 

 cent along one side, tinged with red, glandless or with from one to three small, globose 

 or oval, greenish-brown glands on the stalk. 



Flowers seven-eighths inch across, white, with a disagreeable odor; borne in dense 

 clusters on lateral buds and spurs, in pairs or in threes; pedicels five-eighths inch long, 

 below medium in thickness, glabrous, greenish: calyx-tube green, narrowly campanu- 

 late, glabrous; calyx-lobes short and narrow, acute, serrate, somewhat reflexed, glabrous 

 on the outer surface, but more or less pubescent on the inner surface and along the 

 margin, which is strewn with red glands; petals oval, dentate, tapering below into 

 narrow, lightly pubescent claws of medium length; anthers light yellow; filaments 

 one-half inch in length; pistil glabrous, shorter than the stamens. 



Fruit late, season short; one and one-eighth inches by one inch in size, roundish- 

 oval; cavity shallow, narrow, flaring; suture a line; apex roundish; color dull crimson 

 overspread with thin bloom; dots very numerous, small, gray, conspicuous; stem 

 slender, three-quarters inch long, smooth, not adhering to the fruit; skin thick, tough, 

 astringent, inclined to crack under unfavorable conditions, adhering; flesh dull apricot- 

 yellow, juicy, fibrous, tender and melting, sweet next to the skin but tart toward 

 the center, aromatic; fair to good; stone clinging, five-eighths inch by one-half 

 inch in size, oval, acute at the apex, with pitted surfaces; ventral suture somewhat 

 blunt. 



