228 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



GOLDEN CHERRY 



Prunus cerasifera 



I. HofFy Orch. Com. 2:1842. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 295. 1845. 3- N- Y. Sta. Rpt. 15: 

 293. 1896. 4. Bailey Ev. Nat, Fruits 212. 1898. 5. Can. Exp. Farms Rft. 401. 1898. 



Golden Cherry Plum 2. Market Plum i. Youngken Golden 3. Youngken's Golden Cherry 

 4. Yunkin Golden 5. 



This plum is one of the few cultivated representatives of Prunus ceras- 

 ifera. It offers some attractions because of real merit and because it adds 

 variety to the list of plums for fruit-growers. Some of its qualities are 

 strongly marked and the variety might prove of value in plant-breeding. 

 Golden Cherry originated with Samuel Reeves, Salem, New Jersey, as a 

 seedling of Myrobalan, in the early part of the last century. 



Tree large, vigorous, spreading, dense-topped, unproductive; branches slender, 

 sparingly thorny; branchlets twiggy; leaves oval, one inch wide, one and seven-eighths 

 inches long; margin finely serrate, with few small glands; petiole reddish, eglandular; 

 blooming season early, of medium length; flowers appearing before the leaves, well 

 distributed on lateral buds and spurs. 



Fruit very early; one and one-quarter inches in diameter, greenish-yellow changing 

 to pale yellow with a tinge of red, overspread with thin bloom; flesh pale yellow, very 

 juicy, melting, sweet next to the skin but rather tart at the pit, aromatic; good; stone 

 clinging, five-eighths inch by one-half inch in size, oval, with a nearly smooth surface. 



GOLDEN DROP 



Prunus domestica 



i. Pom. Mag. 2:57, PI. 1829. 2. Land. Hon. Soc. Cat. 144. 1831. 3. Kenrick Am. Orch. 

 256. 1832. 4. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 273. 1845. 5. Floy-Lindley Guide Orch. Card. 295, 383. 

 1846. 6. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 332, fig. 258. 1849. 7. Mag. Hort. 15:486, 487 fig. 42. 1849. 

 8. Hovey Fr. Am. 1:81. 1851. 9 Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 54. 1852. 10. Elliott Fr. Book 410. 1854. 

 ii. Ann. Pom. Beige 43, PL 1855. 12. Thompson Card. Asst 515. 1859. 13. Mas Le Verger 

 6:29, fig. 15. 1866-73. *4- Hogg Fruit Man. 691. 729. 1884. 15. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 425. 

 1889. 16. Guide Prat. 155, 357. 1895. 17. Oregon Sta. Bui. 45:26 fig. 1897. 18. Colo. Sta. 

 Bui. 50:34. 1898. 19. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 211. 1899. 20. Ohio Sta. Bui. 113:158, PL XV. 1899. 

 21. Mich. Sta. Bui. 169:242, 244. 1899. 22. Waugh Plum Cult. 104 fig. 1901. 23. Va. Sta. Bui. 

 134:42. 1902. 24. Ohio Sta. Bui. 162:242, 254, 255. 1905. 



Bury Seedling i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, n, 12, 14, 15, 16. Coe 16, 21. Coe's i, 2, 7, 8, 14, 15, 16. 

 Coe Golden Drop 16, 23. Coe Golden Drop 21. Coe's Golden Drop Plum i, 5, n. Coe's Golden 

 Drop 5, 8, 13, 15, 16, 17, 22, 24. Coe's Golden Drop 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 18, 20. Coe's 

 Golden Drop Plum 13. Coe's Plum 12, 13, 16. Coe (Pride) 15. Coe's Imperial i, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 

 10, ii, 12, 14, 15, 16. Coe's Rothgefleckte Pftaume 13, 16. Coe's Rotgefleckte Pflaume 15. Coe's 

 Plum 5. Cooper's Large 15, 16 incor. Coe's Seedling 3. De Coe 16. Fair's Golden 15, 16. Fair's 

 Golden Drop 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, ro, n. 14. 15, 16. Golden Drop i, 2, 7, 8, 12, 14, is, 16. Golden Drop 

 Plum 16. Golden Gage 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, ii, 12, 14, 15, 16. Goutte d'Or 13. Goutte d'Or 13, 16. 



