300 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



one-half inch long, glabrous, separating readily; skin thin, tough, astringent, inclined 

 to crack, slightly adhering; flesh pale or amber-yellow, not as juicy as many of the 

 Trifloras, firm and meaty, sweet, mild; of fair quality; stone free, five-eighths inch by 

 one-half inch in size, roundish-oval, turgid, blunt but with a small short tip, oblique, 

 slightly pitted; ventral suture faintly ridged and furrowed; dorsal suture not grooved. 



ORANGE 



Prunus domestica 



i. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 150. 1831. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 282. 1845. 3. Cole Am. Fr. 

 Book 214. 1849. 4- Mas Le Verger 6:25. 1866-73. 5- Mathieu Nom. Pom. 442. 1889. 6. Budd- 

 Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 320. 1903. 



Orange 5. Orange Gage z, 5, 6. Pomeranzen Zwetsche 5. Wager 5, 6. 



Orange belongs to the Reine Claude group. Taking its characters 

 all in all it cannot compete with even the average varieties of the plums 

 with which it should be compared. This variety was introduced by A. J. 

 Downing who secured it from a Mr. Teller of Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, 

 New York. Although Rhinebeck is probably its place of origin, it is not 

 likely that Teller first grew the variety since it was quite generally dis- 

 seminated in that vicinity at the tinie of its introduction. It is fast pass- 

 ing from cultivation. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright, productive; branches roughened by the raised lenti- 

 cels; branchlets numerous, pubescent; leaves oval or slightly obovate, two inches wide, 

 four inches long, thick; margin crenate or serrate, with small grands; petiole tinged 

 red, pubescent, with from two to three globose glands. 



Fruit matures in mid-season; about one and one-half inches in diameter 

 roundish-truncate, light amber-yellow with a blush, overspread with thin bloom; 

 stem slender, adhering strongly to the fruit; flesh pale yellow, firm, sweet; of good 

 quality; stone free or nearly so, one inch by five-eighths inch in size, obovate, acute 

 at the apex, blunt at the base, with thickly pitted surfaces; ventral suture wide, 

 usually blunt but sometimes distinctly winged; dorsal suture with a deep groove. 



OREN 



Prunus americana 



i. la. Sta. Bui. 46:285 fig. 1900. 2. Waugh Plum Cult. 174, igot. 3. Budd-Hansen Am. 

 Hort. Man. 299. 1903. 



Bartlett i. Bingaman i. 



Waugh places Oren with the " Miner-like " plums but as the variety 

 grows here it is a typical western Americana the characters of this species 

 in leaf, fruit and stone being well shown in the accompanying plate. It 



