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tube green, campanulate, pubescent; calyx-lobes broad, obtuse, pubescent on both 

 surfaces, glandular-serrate and with marginal hairs, strongly reflexed; petals obovate 

 or oblong, entire, tapering to short, broad claws; anthers yellow; filaments nearly 

 one-half inch long; pistil glabrous, shorter than the stamens. 



Fruit intermediate in time and length of ripening season; one and three-quarters 

 inches by one and one-half inches in size, roundish-oval, compressed, halves unequal; 

 cavity shallow, narrow, abrupt; suture a line; apex depressed; color golden-yellow, 

 obscurely striped and splashed with dull green, mottled, overspread with thin bloom; 

 dots numerous, small, whitish, inconspicuous, clustered about the apex; stem thick, 

 three-quarters inch long, thickly pubescent, adhering well to the fruit; skin tough, 

 separating readily; flesh deep yellow, juicy, a little coarse and fibrous, firm but tender, 

 very sweet, with a pleasant, mild flavor, aromatic; very good to best; stone clinging, 

 one inch by five-eighths inch in size, long-oval, slightly necked at the base, bluntly 

 acute at the apex, with rough surfaces; ventral suture broad, blunt; dorsal suture 

 with a wide, shallow groove. 



i. 

 PETERS 



Prunus domestica 



I. Prince Pom. Man. 27. 1828. 2. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 151. 1831. 3. Cultivator 8:52 fig. 

 1860. 4. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 375 fig. 392. 1867. 5. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 937. 1869. 

 6. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 289. 1889. 7. Mich. Sta. Bui. 103:35. 1894. 8. Cornell Sta. Bui. 131: 

 190 fig. 45, 194. 1897. 9. Waugh Plum Cult. 118 fig. 1901. 10. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 

 321, 322 fig. 1903. 



Peter's Large Yellow i, 2. Peter's Yellow Gage 10. Peters' Yellow Gage 3, 4, 6, 7. Peter's 

 Yellow Gage 5, 8. Peters Yellow Gage 9. 



Peters is an excellent old plum probably ranking in quality with the 

 best varieties in the group to which it belongs a sufficient recommenda- 

 tion to make it desirable in any home collection of fruit. This variety, 

 however, is not equal in appearance to any one of several other sorts in 

 its group, lacking size and color. The trees are large, hardy, robust and 

 healthy, surpassing in these respects most of the other Reine Claude sorts. 

 The tree-characters have made this variety a prime favorite in western 

 New York for two generations, one pomologist after another recommend- 

 ing it for this section. The fruits are not sufficiently attractive to sell 

 well, however, and the variety is now going out of cultivation except for 

 the amateur. While a very good plum it does not appear to be worth 

 growing in competition with Hand, Washington, McLaughlin, Jefferson, 

 Spaulding and the latest comer among these high-quality plums, Eearl. 



Of the origin of this old plum we have no certain information. Wil- 

 liam Prince, the first pomologist to mention it, gave a brief description of 

 the variety in his "A Short Treatise on Horticulture " published in 1828 



