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its place is taken by the Quackenboss, which it very closely resembles. 

 The fruit is large and attractive in color and shape, but it is not high in 

 quality and it must be rated among Domestica plums as only a mediocre 

 fruit. The tree is said generally to give better satisfaction than the fruit. 

 This variety originated with Alexander Glass, Guelph, Ontario, and has been 

 cultivated extensively by Canadian growers to whom its productivity and 

 hardiness recommend it. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, open, productive, hardy; branches rough, 

 stocky; branchlets rather slender, pubescent; leaves folded backward, obovate or oval, 

 one and three-quarters inches wide, three and one-half inches long; margin finely serrate; 

 petiole reddish, pubescent, with from one to three smallish, globose glands usually at the 

 base of the leaf. 



Fruit mid-season; one and one-half inches by one and three-eighths inches in size, 

 oblong-oval, purplish-black, overspread with thick bloom; stem adhering firmly to the 

 fruit; skin thin, tender, rather sour; flesh light yellow, juicy, firm, sweet, mild; of 

 fair quality; stone clinging, one inch by five-eighths inch in size, irregular-oval, with 

 oblique apex, the surfaces rough and pitted; ventral suture prominent, winged. 



GOLDEN 



Prunus munsoniana X Prunus triflora 



I. U. S. D. A. Rpt. 263. 1892. 2. Burbank Cat. 17. 1893. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 74. 1895. 

 4. Am. Card. 18:715. 1897. 5- Cal. State Board Hort. 53. 1897-98. 6. Vt. Sta. Bui. 67:12. 1898. 

 7. Ohio Sta. Bui. 113:161. 1899. 8. Am. Card. 21:36. 1900. 9. Vt. Sta. An. Rpt. 14:274. 1901. 

 10. Mich. Sta. Sp. Bui. 30:18 1905. n. Mass. Sta. An. Rpt. 17:161. 1905. 12. Ga. Sta. Bui. 

 68:8, 36. 1905. 13. U. S. D. A. Yearbook 500. 1905. 



Gold 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, n. Gold 6, 9, 13. Late Klondike 5. 



It would be hard to name another plum as showy as Golden. Large 

 for its group, beautifully turned, it presents a most striking appearance 

 long before it is ripe, with its bright yellow skin and crimson cheek, the 

 whole plum turning to a brilliant currant-red with a delicate bloom at 

 maturity. But the plum is little more than showy. The flavor is not good, 

 the flesh is fibrous, excessively juicy and adheres to the stone, the skin 

 is tough and astringent. In spite of the juiciness the plum ships well, owing 

 to the tough skin, but the fruits are much attacked by brown-rot and the 

 skin cracks badly under unfavorable conditions. The trees are rather 

 small, uncertain in bearing, often enormously productive but do not hold 

 the crop well, and the plums ripen unevenly. Strange to say, considering 

 the parentage, the variety is hardy, according to Waugh standing the 

 winters at Burlington, Vermont, almost perfectly. In tree and fruit the 



