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1900. 6. Waugh Plum Cult. 114. 1901. 7. Budd-Hansen Am. Hon. Man. 317, 318 fig. 1903. 

 8. Am. Pom. Sac. Rft. 254. 1903. 9. Ohio Sta. Bui. 162:236, 238 fig., 256, 257. 1905. 10. Mass. 

 Sta. An. Rpt. 17:1 59. 1903. 



Lincoln has never been popular in New York, but in Pennsylvania 

 and New Jersey it is well thought of for home use and the markets. The 

 trees in this State grow slowly and when fully grown are rather inferior. 

 This is one of the sorts recommended to be top-worked on better growing 

 varieties but, as has been said before in these notes, top-working in New 

 York is far more often a failure than a success with plums. The fruit of 

 this variety is unusually attractive in size and color and for quality it 

 may be named among the best of the red plums. Unfortunately, the variety 

 is readily infected by the brown-rot which when epidemic cannot be con- 

 trolled. Lincoln has been so well tested in New York without becoming 

 popular with plum-growers that it is hardly worth recommending for 

 further trial, though the fruits in particular have much merit. 



This plum originated in York County, Pennsylvania, about forty- 

 five years ago, supposedly from seed of the Reine Claude, and was named 

 after Abraham Lincoln. If it be a Reine Claude seedling it comes from a 

 cross with some other variety, since it shows many characters not in Reine 

 Claude. Lincoln was introduced by J. T. Lovett and Company, Little 

 Silver, New Jersey. 



Tree of medium size, vigorous, upright-spreading, but somewhat variable in habit, 

 dense-topped, hardy, productive; branches ash-gray, rough; branchlets somewhat 

 slender, short, with long internodes, greenish-red changing to brownish-red, dull, spar- 

 ingly pubescent throughout the season, overspread with thin bloom, with small, incon- 

 spicuous lenticels; leaf -buds large, long, pointed, free; leaf -scars prominent. 



Leaves somewhat 'folded backward, oval or obovate, two inches wide, four inches 

 long, rather stiff; upper surface slightly rugose, pubescent only in the shallow, grooved 

 midrib; lower surface silvery-green, pubescent; apex abruptly pointed, base acute, 

 margin doubly crenate, with small, dark glands; petiole nearly one inch long, pubescent, 

 reddish, with from one to four rather large, globose or reniform, yellowish glands vari- 

 able in position. 



Season of bloom medium; flowers appearing after the leaves, over one inch across, 

 white; borne on lateral spurs and buds, singly or in pairs; pedicels about seven-eighths 

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

 cent; calyx-lobes broad, acute, somewhat pubescent on both surfaces, glandular-serrate, 

 with marginal hairs, reflexed; petals oval, crenate, with claws of medium width; anthers 

 yellow; filaments three-eighths inch or more in length; pistil glabrous, shorter than the 

 stamens. 



Fruit early, season short; somewhat variable but averaging about two inches by 

 one and five-eighths inches in size, oblong-oval, slightly necked, halves usually equal; 



