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quarters inch long, pubescent, greenish; calyx-tube green, campanulate, glabrous, 

 with a swollen ring at the base; calyx-lobes obtuse, pubescent on both surfaces, glan- 

 dular-serrate and with fine marginal hairs, erect; petals roundish or obovate, dentate, 

 tapering to very short and broad claws; anthers yellowish; filaments five-sixteenths 

 inch long; pistil pubescent at the base, equal to the stamens in length. 



Fruit mid-season, ripening period long; one and five-eighths inches by one and 

 one-half inches in size, roundish-oval, not compressed, halves equal; cavity shallow, 

 narrow, abrupt; suture very shallow, indistinct; apex roundish; color greenish-yellow, 

 changing to bronze-yellow, sometimes with faint pink blush on the exposed cheek, 

 often indistinctly streaked and mottled with green before full maturity; dots numerous, 

 very small, gray or reddish, inconspicuous; stem seven-eighths inch long, thinly pubes- 

 cent, adhering well to the fruit; skin thin, tough, slightly adhering; flesh deep yellow, 

 juicy, firm but tender, sweet, mild, pleasant; very good; stone semi-free, one inch by 

 three-quarters inch in size, flattened, broadly oval, abruptly tipped, with a short neck 

 at the base, blunt at the apex, with rough and pitted surfaces; ventral suture heavily 

 furrowed, winged; dorsal suture with a wide, deep groove. 



JUICY 



Prunus munsoniana X Prunus triflora 



i. Burbank Cat. 20. 1893. 2. Cal. State Bd. Hon. 53. 1897. 3. Vt. Sia. Bui. 67:15. 1898, 

 4. Ohio Sta. Bui. 113:161. 1899. 5. Conn. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 155. 1900. 6. Ohio Sta. Bui. 162:256. 

 357. 1905. 7. Mass. Sta. An. Rpt. 17:161. 1905. 



Juicy has been widely tested and in general is considered of very 

 little cultural importance, failing chiefly because of the inferior quality 

 of the plums. The variety is an interesting cross, however, and has given 

 a tree so much more vigorous and so much better adapted to orchard 

 purposes than its native parent, quite equalling the Triflora parent in tree- 

 characters, as to suggest the value of this cross for improving the trees 

 of our native plums. This plum, like Golden, was grown by Luther Bur- 

 bank from a seed of Robinson fertilized by pollen of Abundance. In 1893 

 the originator sold the new variety to John Lewis Childs, Floral Park, 

 New York, who introduced it the following year. The variety has not 

 escaped without some confusion as to its origin for its parentage has been 

 published as a cross between Robinson and Kelsey. 1 



Tree very large, vigorous, spreading, open-topped, productive; branches sparingly 

 thorny; leaves broadly oblanceolate or oval, one and one-quarter inches wide, three 

 inches long; margin finely serrate or sometimes crenate, with dark reddish-glands; 

 petiole short, slender, with from two to five globose glands on the stalk; blooming 



1 Cornell Sta. Bui. 106:53. '896. 



