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of the latter is shown by its hardiness and its broad, Americana -like foliage. 

 The variety first fruited in 1888 and was sent out in 1892. 



Tree very large, vigorous, round-topped, widely spreading, hardy at Geneva, an 

 uncertain bearer; trunk and larger limbs shaggy; branches long, rough, brash, thorny, 

 dark ash-gray, with many, large lenticels; branchlets thick, very long, with long inter- 

 nodes, green changing to dull reddish-brown, glabrous, with raised lenticels of medium 

 number and size; leaf -buds small, short, obtuse, plump, free. 



Leaves folded upward, oval or slightly obovate, two and one-eighth inches wide, 

 four inches long, thin; upper surface somewhat rugose; lower surface pale green, very 

 lightly pubescent along the midrib; apex taper-pointed, base obtuse, often unsymmet- 

 rical, margin coarsely and doubly serrate, eglandular; petiole three-quarters inch long, 

 sparingly pubescent along one side, tinged red, glandless or with from one to four small, 

 globose, greenish-brown glands on the stalk. 



Blooming season medium to late, long; flowers appearing after the leaves, fifteen- 

 sixteenths inch across, white, with a disagreeable odor; borne in clusters on lateral 

 buds and spurs, in twos or in threes; pedicels five-eighths inch in length, slender, glabrous, 

 greenish; calyx-tube green, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes narrow, obtuse, thinly 

 pubescent within, glandular-serrate and with marginal hairs, somewhat reflexed; petals 

 ovate or oval, irregularly crenate, tapering below into claws of medium length and 

 breadth; anthers yellowish; filaments seven-sixteenths inch in length; pistil glabrous, 

 equal to or shorter than the stamens in length. 



Fruit mid-season, ripening period of average length; one and one-quarter inches 

 in diameter, roundish-oval, slightly compressed, halves equal; cavity very shallow, 

 narrow, flaring; suture an indistinct line; apex roundish; color crimson overspread 

 with thick bloom; dots numerous, very small, light russet, inconspicuous; stem slender, 

 five-eighths inch long, glabrous, not adhering to the fruit; skin thick, tough, inclined 

 to crack under unfavorable conditions, separating readily; flesh golden-yellow, juicy, 

 fibrous, tender and melting, sweet, strongly aromatic; good; stone semi-free, three- 

 quarters inch by five-eighths inch in size, flattened, roundish-oval, somewhat compressed 

 at the base, abruptly pointed at the apex, rough; ventral suture rather narrow, faintly 

 ridged; dorsal suture with a narrow, shallow groove. 



HAND 



Prunus domestica 



I. Horticulturist 2:436. 1847. 2. Ibid. 6:21 fig., 187, 294. 1851. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt, 190, 

 214. 1856. 4. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 382. 1857. 5. Hogg Fruit Man. 362. 1866. 6. Mas 

 Pom. Gen. 2:19, fig. 10. 1873. 7. Ont. Fr. Exp. Sta. Rpt. 120. 1896. 8. Cornell Sta. Bui, 131:185. 

 1897. 9. Waugh Plum Cult. 108 fig. 1901. 10. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 314, 315 fig. 

 1903. ii. Mass. Sta. An. Rpt. 17:159. 1905. 



Gen. Hand i, 2. General Hand 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8. Genl. Hand 4. General Hand 9, 10. Mont- 

 gomery 3 incor. 



Unproductiveness and uncertainty in bearing keep this magnificent 

 yellow dessert plum from being one of the most commonly grown of all 



