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while disagreeable to the writer, might be liked by some. The flesh of this 

 plum is so transparent that the pit can be readily seen when the skin is re- 

 moved. To those growing native plums, Poole Pride is recommended for trial. 

 This variety was raised by P. H. Kroh, Anna, Illinois, and was 

 exhibited by him under the name Kroh at the American Pomological 

 Society meeting in 1885. Three years later the same plum was introduced 

 by Stark Brothers, Louisiana, Missouri, under the name of Poole's Pride. 

 The latter name has been so much more widely used that it has been retained 

 even though the former is correct according to the rule of priority. 



Tree large, vigorous, open and round-topped, hardy, productive, healthy; branches 

 rough, zigzag, with few thorns, dark ash-gray, with numerous, small lenticels; branch- 

 lets twiggy, slender, above medium in length, with short internodes, greenish-red chang- 

 ing to light chestnut-red, glabrous, with numerous, very conspicuous, large, raised 

 lenticels; leaf -buds small, short, obtuse, plump, appressed. 



Leaves folded upward, ovate or obovate, peach-like, one and three-eighths inches 

 wide, three and one-half inches long, thin and leathery; upper surface dull red late in 

 the season, smooth, glossy, with a narrow groove on the midrib ; lower surface lightly 

 pubescent; apex taper-pointed, base rather abrupt, margin finely crenate, with small 

 dark glands; petiole seven-eighths inch long, slender, hairy, light purplish-red, with 

 from one to four small, globose, reddish-brown glands on the stalk. 



Blooming season late and long; flowers appearing after the leaves, five-eighths 

 inch across, white; borne in clusters on short lateral spurs and buds; pedicels nine- 

 sixteenths inch long, very slender, glabrous, green; calyx-tube greenish, campanulate, 

 glabrous; calyx-lobes narrow, obtuse, heavily pubescent within and along the margin 

 which is serrate and covered with reddish glands, erect; petals small, ovate or round- 

 ish, crenate, tapering into long pubescent claws; anthers yellowish; filaments five- 

 sixteenths inch long; pistil glabrous, shorter than the stamens. 



Fruit early, season very long; one inch in diameter, roundish-oval, not compressed, 

 halves equal; cavity very shallow and narrow; suture a distinct line; apex roundish; 

 color clear, dark, currant-red, with thin bloom; dots few, large, light russet, conspic- 

 uous, clustered about the apex; stem slender, five-eighths inch long, glabrous, but 

 overspread with a grayish bloom, adhering to the fruit; skin thin, tough, separating 

 from the pulp; flesh semi-transparent, dark amber-yellow, very juicy, fibrous, tender 

 and melting, sweet, with a strong, peculiar flavor not pleasant; of fair quality; stone 

 adhering, five-eighths inch by three-eighths inch in size, long-oval, slightly flattened, com- 

 pressed at the base, pointed at the apex, roughish; ventral suture blunt, faintly ridged; 

 dorsal suture acute, entire. 



POTTAWATTAMIE 



Prunus munsoniana 



I. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 287. 1887. 2. Pop. Gard. 3:27 fig. 1887. 3. Cornell Sta. Bui. 38:64. 

 86. 1892. 4. Mich Sta. Bui. 123:20. 1895. 5. la. Sta. Bid. 31:346. 1893- 6. Wis. Sta. Bui. 



