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but says nothing in regard to its history. In 1831 the London Horticul- 

 tural Society listed it in its fruit catalog but otherwise the variety is not 

 mentioned in the European pomologies. 



Tree very large, vigorous, round and dense-topped, hardy, productive; branches 

 thick, ash-gray, smooth except for the numerous, rather large, raised lenticels; branch- 

 lets thick, short, with short internodes, greenish-red changing to dark brownish-drab, 

 dull, pubescent throughout the season, with numerous, inconspicuous, small lenticels; 

 leaf-buds medium in size and length, pointed, free. 



Leaves flattened, obovate or oval, two inches wide, four inches long; upper surface 

 covered with numerous hairs, with a shallow groove on the midrib; lower surface sil- 

 very-green, heavily pubescent; apex abruptly pointed or acute, base rather abrupt, 

 margin slightly crenate, eglandular or with few, small, dark glands; petiole three- 

 eighths inch long, thick, tinged red, pubescent, glandless or with one or two small, 

 globose or reniform, greenish-brown glands usually on the stalk. 



Blooming season intermediate in time and length; flowers appearing with the 

 leaves, one and one-eighth inches wide, white, creamy at the apex; borne on lateral 

 spurs or buds, singly or in pairs; pedicels about one inch long, below medium in thick- 

 ness, pubescent, greenish; calyx-tube green, obconic, pubescent; calyx -lobes broad, 

 obtuse, pubescent on both surfaces, glandular-serrate and with fine marginal hairs, 

 reflexed; petals roundish-oval or obovate, dentate to slightly crenate; anthers yellow, 

 with a slight trace of red; filaments three-eighths inch long; pistil glabrous, longer 

 than the stamens. 



Fruit late, season rather short ; about one and one-half inches in diameter, round- 

 ish, compressed, halves equal; cavity very shallow, narrow, abrupt; suture shallow; 

 apex flattened or depressed ; color dull yellowish-green, often blushed or mottled on 

 the sunny side, covered with thick bloom; dots numerous, large, whitish, conspicuous; 

 stem one and one-eighth inches long, pubescent, adhering well to the fruit; skin thin, 

 tough, separating readily; flesh golden-yellow, juicy, somewhat fibrous, firm but tender, 

 sweet next the skin but sour near the center, with pleasant flavor; very good; stone 

 clinging, one inch by three-quarters inch in size, oval, turgid, somewhat acute at the base 

 and apex, with pitted surfaces; ventral suture wide, indistinctly furrowed, often with 

 a short wing; dorsal suture widely and deeply grooved. 



POND 



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Prunus domestica 



i. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 151. 1831. 2. Mag. Hort. 9:163. 1843. 3- Horticulturist 6:560 

 fig. 1851. 4. Card. Chron. 13:228. 1853. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 214. 1856. 6. Ann. Pom. 

 Beige 9, fig. 1857. 7- Cultivator 8:52 fig. 1860. 8. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 343. 1867. 9. Down- 

 ing Fr. Trees Am. 937 fig. 1869. 10. Pom. France 7:No. 2. 1871. n. Mas Le Verger 6:5, fig. 3. 

 1886-73. 12. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 466. 1883. 13. Hogg Fruit Man. 717. 1884. 14. Cal. State 

 Bd. Hort. Rpt. 292. 1885-86. 15. Mathieu Norn. Pom. 442. 1889. 16. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 

 465. 1893. 17. Guide Prat. 155, 366. 1895. 18. Oregon Sta. Bui. 45:29 fig. 1897. 19. Cornell 



