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one inch or more across, white with yellowish tinge at the apex of the petals; borne 

 singly or in pairs; anthers yellow with a trace of red. 



Fruit early, season short; one and one-half inches by one and three-eighths 

 inches in size, oval, dull yellow mottled with red at full maturity, covered with thin 

 bloom; dots numerous, conspicuous; flesh light greenish-yellow, rather dry, firm, sweet, 

 mild; good to very good; stone free, three-quarters inch by one-half inch in size, irregular- 

 oval, flat, with finely pitted surfaces; ventral suture usually winged; dorsal suture with 

 a shallow, narrow, indistinct groove. 



NEWMAN 

 Prunus munsoniana 



I. Horticulturist 22:271. 1867. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 934. 1869. 3. Am. Jour. Hort. 

 5:142. 1869. 4. Mich. Pom. Sac. Rpt. 39. 1874. 5. Am. Pom.. Soc. Cat. 36. 1875. 6. Barry 

 Fr. Garden 418. 1883. 7. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 286. 1887. 8. Cornell Sia. Bid. 38:63, 86. 1892. 

 9. Mich. Sta. Bui. 123:20. 1895. 10. Wis. Sta. Bui. 63:49. 1897. n. Me. Sta. An. Rpt. 12:66. 

 1896. 12. Bailey Ev. Nat. Fruits 200 fig., 201. 1898. 13. Rural N. Y. 59:450. 1900. 14. la. 

 Sta. Bui. 46:282. 1900. 15. Ohio Sta. Bui. 162:256, 257. 1905. 



Warren ? 8. 



Newman is one of the oldest but still one of the standard varieties 

 of its species. Its fruits are characterized by a firm, meaty flesh, which 

 fits it well for shipping and storing ; the plums are also attractive in shape 

 and color but are too small and too low in quality to make the variety a 

 first-rate one. The trees are large and vigorous and in all respects very 

 satisfactory orchard plants. Both fruits and trees are usually reported 

 as fairly free from diseases and insects. While the variety is gradually 

 going out it still has some value for its crops and ought to make a good 

 parent from which to breed a race of vigorous, firm-fleshed Munsonianas. 



The origin of this plum is uncertain. In 1867 a Mr. Elliott of Cleve- 

 land, Ohio, reported in the Horticulturist that he had received samples of 

 the " Newman Plum " from D. L. Adair, Esq., of Hawesville, Kentucky, 

 and gave a brief description of the fruit which seems to tally with that of 

 the variety under discussion. The American Pomological Society added 

 this plum to its fruit catalog list in 1875 an d removed it in 1891. 



Tree large, vigorous, spreading, low and flat, dense-topped, hardy at Geneva, 

 productive, subject to attacks of shot-hole fungus, the trunk shaggy; branches dark 

 ash-gray, rough and shaggy, thorny, zigzag, with numerous, rather inconspicuous, 

 large, elongated lenticels; branchlets very slender, twiggy, with internodes of average 

 length, greenish-red, changing to dark brown, glabrous, with few, conspicuous, large, 

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



Leaves lanceolate, peach-like, one and one-quarter inches wide, four inches long, 

 thin; upper surface smooth, glabrous, with a grooved midrib; lower surface glabrous 



