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late, season long; keeps and ships unusually well; large, cordate, conical, halves un- 

 equal; suture variable in depth; apex pointed; color rather unattractive yellow, tinged 

 and splashed with red, often overspread with purple, with attractive bloom, more or 

 less marked with conspicuous dots; stem sometimes adhering poorly to the fruit; skin 

 tender; flesh delicate yellow, juicy, firm and meaty, rich, pleasant, aromatic; good 

 to very good; stone clinging unless well ripened, small, in an irregular cavity larger 

 than the pit. 



KERR 



Prunus triflora 



I. Ga. Hon. Soc. Rpt. 52. 1889. 2. Am. Card. 12:307, 501. 1891. 3. Ibid. 13:700. 1892. 

 4. Kerr Cat. 1894. 5. Cornell Sta. Bid. 62:25. 1894. 6. Ga. Hon. Soc. Rpt. 95. 1895. 

 7. Ala. Sta. Bui. 85:443. 1897. 8. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 41. 1899. 9. Cornell Sta. Bui. 175:136. 

 1899. 10. Waugh Plum Cult. 137. 1901. n. Ga. Hon. Soc. Rpt. XIII. 1904. 12. Ohio Sta. 

 Bid. 162:256, 257. 1905. 



Hattankio i. Hattankio 7. Hattankin No. 2. 2, 3. Hattonkin No. 2. 4, 5, 10. Hattonkin 

 9. Hattankio No. 2. 6, n. Hattankio Oblong 9, n. Hattankio 10. Hattan 10. Hytankio 10. 

 Hytan-Kayo 10. 



Kerr is about the best of the yellow Trifloras and is one of the best 

 of all early plums of its species. It is very productive, sometimes over- 

 bearing, and should always be thinned. The quality of the plums is good 

 and the fruits are attractive in appearance. The faults of the variety are 

 that the fruits drop as they ripen, though they color if picked green, and 

 in some localities the tree -characters are poor. This variety was imported 

 from Japan by Frost and Burgess, Riverside, California, and was dis- 

 tributed under the group name Hattankio No. 2 or Hattonkin No. 2. As 

 Georgeson was also distributed under the same name, though under a 

 different number, confusion resulted. To better distinguish between the 

 two, L H. Bailey, in 1894, named Hattonkin No. 2 Kerr, in honor of J. 

 W. Kerr, the noted plum specialist, of Denton, Maryland. In 1899 the 

 variety was placed on the fruit catalog list of the American Pomological 

 Society. The following description is compiled. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright, very productive; leaves large, thick; blooming 

 season late. Fruit early; of medium size unless thinned, when it becomes large, variable 

 in form, but usually heart-shaped, yellow with thin bloom; skin thick; flesh yellow, 

 firm, subacid, sweet; fair to good; stone clinging, of medium size, oval, turgid. 



KING DAMSON 



Prunus insititia 



i. Watkins Nur. Cat. 48. 1892 ?. 2. Am. Card. 14:146, 147. 1893. 3. Garden 53: 265. 

 1898. 4. Can. Exp. Farm Bui. and Ser. 3:51. 1900. 5. Thompson Card. Ass't 4:161. 1901. 

 Bradley's King 5. Bradley's King of Damsons 3. King of Damsons i, 2. 



