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to dull reddish-brown, thinly pubescent, with numerous, conspicuous, small, slightly 

 raised lenticels; leaf -buds small, short, obtuse, free. 



Leaves folded upward, broadly lanceolate or oblanceolate, peach-like, one inch 

 wide, three inches long, thin; upper surface smooth, with a grooved midrib; lower 

 surface thinly pubescent on the midrib and larger veins; apex taper-pointed, base 

 slightly acute, margin serrate or crenate, with numerous, minute, dark glands; petiole 

 seven-sixteenths inch long, slender, reddish, lightly pubescent, glandless or with from 

 one to four small, globose, yellowish-brown glands usually on the stalk. 



Blooming season late and long; flowers appearing after the leaves, three-quarters 

 inch across, the buds creamy when opening, changing to white, odor disagreeable; borne 

 in thin clusters on lateral spurs and buds, singly, in pairs, or in threes; pedicels three- 

 quarters inch long, very slender, glabrous, greenish; calyx- tube green, obconic, glabrous; 

 calyx-lobes narrow, slightly obtuse, pubescent within, with dark colored glands and 

 marginal hairs, erect; petals oval, entire or deeply indented, tapering below to long, 

 narrow claws margined with few scattering hairs near the base; anthers yellow with 

 a faint trace of red; filaments five-sixteenths inch long; pistil slender, glabrous, equal 

 to the stamens in length. 



Fruit very early, season short; one and three-sixteenths inches by one inch in size, 

 oval, slightly compressed, halves equal; cavity shallow, narrow, abrupt, regular; suture 

 a distinct line; apex roundish or slightly pointed; color dark red, covered with thin 

 bloom; dots very numerous, medium to large, russet, conspicuous; stem slender, seven- 

 eighths inch long, adhering fairly well to the fruit; skin thin, tough, astringent, sepa- 

 rating readily; flesh yellowish, the juice given off readily leaving a tough, fibrous pulp, 

 sweet next the skin, but rather acid at the center, of pleasant flavor; fair to good; stone 

 adhering, three-quarters inch by one-half inch in size, long-oval, slightly elongated at 

 the base and apex, somewhat flattened, surface broken into irregular ridges; ventral 

 suture blunt, faintly ridged; dorsal suture a narrow, shallow groove. 



MINER 



Prunus hortulana mineri 



i. Horticulturist 22:332. 1867. 2. Am. Jour. Hort. 5:145. 1869. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 

 931. 1869. 4. la. Agr. Soc. Rpt. 332. 1871. 5. Card. Man. 13:347, 348. 1871. 6. la. Hort. Soc. 

 Rpt. 152. 1873. 7. Ibid. 90. 1874. 8. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 36. 1875. 9. Minn. Hort. Soc. 

 Rpt. 81. 1882. 10. Cornell Sta. Bui. 38:55, 56, 58, 81, 86. 1892. n. Mich. Sta. Bui. 118:54. 

 1895. 12. Guide Prat. 163, 359. 1895. 13. Vt. Sta. An. Rpt. 10:99, I0 3- J 897- 14. Thomas 

 Am. Fruit Cult. 491. 1897. 15. Colo. Sta. Bui. 50:41. 1898. 16. Waugh Plum Cult. 173. 1901. 

 17. Minn. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 208. 1901. 18. Ga. Sta. Bui. 67:278. 1904. 19. S. Dak. Sta. Bui. 93:25, 

 57 fig. 1905. 



Chicasaw Chief 4, 10, 14. General Jackson 4, 10, 14. Gillett 3, 14. Hinckley 3, 6, 10, 14. 

 Hinckley 5, 7. Isabel 3, 14. Minner 12. Old Hickory 4, 10, 14. Parsons ?io, 14, 16. Robinson 

 3, 14. Townsend 3, 6, 14. William Dodd 4, 10, 14. 



Miner has the distinction of being the first of the native plums to 

 be named and of being the typical plum in the sub-species to which its 



