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MARU 



Prunus triflora 



i. Ga. Hon. Sac. Rpt. 29. 1886. 2. /Wd. 53, 99. 1889. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 105, 106. 1891. 

 4. Rev. Hon. 515. 1891. 5. Ibid. 278. 1894. 6. Cornell Sta. Bui. 62:26. 1894. 7. Tex. Sta. Bui. 

 32:489. 1899. 8. Cornell Sta. Bui. 106:57. 1896. 9. Rural N. Y. 56:615. 1897. 10. Cornell 

 Sta. Bui. 175:143. 1899. ii. Mich. Sta. Bui. 169:242, 249. 1899. 12. Waugh Plum Cult. 138. 

 1901. 13. Ga. Sta. Bui. 68:9. 31. 1905. 



Maru is much in evidence in plum literature, the concensus of opinion 

 being that it is little short of worthless. Its quality is not high and it comes 

 in season about with Abundance which surpasses it in nearly all characters. 

 The variety was introduced by Luther Burbank and is said to have been 

 imported by him about 1885. In Japan this name is applied to any round 

 plum, but so far in America it has been restricted to this variety. 



Tree large, lacking in vigor, broad-vasiform, dense-topped, unproductive, somewhat 

 susceptible to attacks of shot-hole fungus; trunk and branches rough; branchlets 

 twiggy, marked with thin, russety scarf-skin, glabrous, with large, prominent lenticels; 

 leaves folded upward, oblanceolate, peach-like, thin, one and three-eighths inches wide, 

 three inches long; upper surface yellowish-green late in the season; margin very finely 

 serrate, with small glands; petiole with from one to six glands usually on the stalk; 

 blooming season early; flowers appearing after the leaves, three-quarters inch across; 

 borne in clusters on lateral spurs, in threes or fours; pistil longer than the stamens. 



Fruit early, about one and one-quarter inches in diameter, roundish-cordate, dull 

 red, with medium thick bloom; flesh deep yellow, tender and melting, sweet next the 

 skin, but slightly astringent near the pit; poor in quality; stone clinging, five-eighths 

 inch by one-half inch in size, oval or roundish, turgid, with rough surfaces. 



MAYNARD 



Prunus triflora X Prunus sintonii 



i. Vt. Sta. An. Rpt. 12:226. 1899. 2. Nat. Nur. 11:5. 1903. 3. Oregon Nur. Cat. 24. 1903. 

 4. Can. Hort. 28:285. 1905. 



The habit of the tree of Maynard is commendable and the plums 

 are very acceptable to those who care for the Triflora fruits. The season 

 follows Climax, a period when there is a dearth of Triflora plums. May- 

 nard has been so widely advertised that it is hardly necessary to say that 

 it is worthy of trial. The variety was first fruited in 1897 by Burbank 

 after which it was tested by him for five years and was then sold to the 

 Oregon Nursery Company by whom it was introduced in 1903. It was 

 named by the originator in honor of Professor T. S. Maynard, then in 

 charge of horticulture in the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 



