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Sta. Bui. 131:190. 1897. 20. W. N. Y. Hori. Soc. Rpt. 92. 1899. 21. Ohio Sta. Bui. 113:160, 

 PI. XVI fig. 1899. 22. Va. Sta. Bui. 134:44. 1902. 23. Budd-Hansen Am. Hon. Man. 322. 1903. 

 Chili (Kerr unpublished). Diamant 15 incor. Diamant pflaume 17 incor. Dorr's Favorite 12. 

 English Pond's Seedling 3. Farleigh Castle 13, 15. Fonthill 4, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 17, 23. Gros 

 Prune 14. Grosse Prune d'Agen 18, 20. Hungarian 18. Hungarian 20. Hungarian Prune 16, 

 19. Hungarian Prune 14. Oswego 20. Oswego 19. Plum de 1'Inde ?3. Plum de I'Inde 9, 15. 

 Pond's Purple 9, 10, 13, 15, 17. Pond's Seedling (English) n, 14, 17. Pond's Seedling i, a, 4, 5, 

 6. 7. 8, 9, 10, ii, 13, 16, 21. Pond's Seedling 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 23. Pond Seedling 20. Pond's 

 Samling 15, 17. Pourprce de Pond 10, 15, 17. Pride of Waterloo 20. Semis de Pond 10, 15. Semis 

 de Pond 17. 



Pond is preeminent among plums for its large size. It is distinguished 

 also by its form and its color, both being pleasing as well as distinctive. 

 The three characters, size, form and color make this one of the handsomest 

 of all plums. Despite the efforts of the color-plate makers, the peculiar 

 red of this plum is not well shown in the illustration to the disparage- 

 ment of the fruit. At one time Pond was very largely grown in New York 

 but the fruits are not as perfect, grown here, as on the Pacific Coast and 

 the trees are not regular in bearing. The eye is pleased with Pond but 

 the palate is sadly disappointed; at best it is not even second-rate. The 

 fruits, however, ship and keep well, as is demonstrated by the large quan- 

 tities of this variety annually sent from California to the East for sale 

 on fruit -stands where its showiness perennially beguiles the uninformed 

 fruit -buyer. There is a fine opportunity for some one to cross this splendid- 

 appearing plum with one of good quality in the hope of getting an offspring 

 as handsome but of better quality. 



This variety was obtained from seed by Mr. Pond, an English amateur 

 grower of fruits, concerning whom there seems to be no further informa- 

 tion. The London Horticultural Society mentioned the variety as long 

 ago as in 1831. Another Mr. Pond, a nurseryman in Massachusetts, grew 

 a variety very similar in appearance to the English plum and permitted 

 his name to be given it to the great confusion of the nomenclature of the 

 two. The Hungarian prune of the Pacific Coast is Pond, why so-called 

 does not appear; with this as with several other plums the Pacific Coast 

 fruit-growers persist in using a name known to have been wrongly applied 

 to an old and well-known variety elsewhere called rightly. Oswego, a 

 supposed seedling grown in Oswego, New York, is identical with the Pond 

 as tested by this Experiment Station and by local growers. The American 

 Pomological Society placed this fruit on its catalog list in 1856. 



Tree of medium size, vigorous, upright, hardy, variable in productiveness; branches 

 light gray, smooth, with small, raised lenticels; branchlets of medium thickness and 



