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Leaves drooping, folded upward, oval or obovate, one and five-eighths inches 

 wide, three and one-quarter inches long, thick; upper surface dark green, rough, hairy, 

 with a deeply, narrowly grooved midrib; lower surface pale green, pubescent; apex 

 and base acute, margin serrate, eglandular or with small brown glands; petiole 

 nine-sixteenths inch long, pubescent, tinged red, glandless or with one or two globose, 

 greenish-yellow glands usually at the base of the leaf. 



Blooming season intermediate in time and length; flowers appearing after the 

 leaves, seven-eighths inch across, the buds tinged yellow, changing to white on opening, 

 not clustered but distributed on lateral spurs, singly or in pairs; pedicels seven-eighths 

 inch long, very slender, pubescent, greenish; calyx-tube green, campanulate, pubescent; 

 calyx-lobes narrow, acuminate, thickly pubescent on both surfaces, glandular-serrate, 

 reflexed; petals narrowly ovate, serrate, converging at the base into narrow claws; 

 anthers yellowish; filaments seven-sixteenths inch long; pistil glabrous, equal to the 

 stamens in length, small, slender. 



Fruit late, season short; one and five-eighths inches by one inch in size, distinctly 

 oblong, somewhat necked, swollen on the suture side, compressed, halves unequal; 

 cavity very shallow and narrow, abrupt; suture shallow; apex pointed; color dark 

 reddish-purple, overspread with thick bloom; dots numerous, small, russet, incon- 

 spicuous; stem slender, one and one-eighth inches long, pubescent, adhering well 

 to the fruit; skin thin, tough, slightly sour, separating readily; flesh yellowish-green, 

 juicy, firm but tender, sweet, mild; good to very good; stone semi-free to free, one and 

 one-eighth inches by one-half inch in size, irregular long-oval, flattened, necked at the 

 base, acute at the apex, with thickly pitted surfaces; ventral suture wide, blunt; dorsal 

 suture with a wide, deep groove. 



ICKWORTH 



Prunus domestica 



i Card. Chron. 1:734. 1841. 2. Ibid. 2:176. 1842. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 302. 1845. 

 4. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 345. 1849. 5- Elliott Fr. Book. 420. 1854. 6. Thompson Card. 

 Ass't 517. 1859. 7. Mas Le Verger 6:57, PI. 29. 1866-73. 8. Barry Fr. Garden 413. 1883. 9. 

 Hogg Fruit Man. 706. 1884. 10. Mathieu Norn. Pom. 435. 1889. ir. Wickson Cal. Fruits 

 358. 1891. 12. Cornell Sta. Bui. 131:187. 1897. 13. Waugh Plum Cult. no. 1901. 



Ickworth Imperatrice i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, n, 12. Ickworth Imperatrice 13. Imperatrice 

 Ickworth 10. Imperatrice Jckworth 7. Jckworth Imperatrice 7. Knight's No.6. 3, 5, 9, 10. 



Ickworth is hardly known in America though in England it is a favo- 

 rite late plum noted as being one of the best of all plums for late keeping. 

 In New York the plums of this variety are too small for the market and 

 are not high enough in quality for a home plum; moreover, the plums 

 do not always ripen in this latitude. In California Ickworth has been 

 found to make a very good prune and to ship very well in the green state 

 but here again small size debars it from great commercial value. The 

 habits of growth of Ickworth are very good and so markedly so that when 



