THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 339 



SAUNDERS 



Prunus domestica 



i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 143. 1885. 2. Can. Hort. 14:92, 223. 1891. 3. Ibid. 19:253. 1896. 

 4. Ont. Exp. Sta. Rpt. 45, 46. 1899. 5. Can. Hort. 27:244. 1904. 

 Saunders Seedling 5. 



The American Pomological Society recommends this variety for trial 

 with the statement that the quality is of the best and that it is almost free 

 from black-knot. But on the grounds of this Station, fruiting for several 

 years, the plums have been inferior in size and somewhat so in quality and 

 all told much less attractive than a number of other sorts of the same 

 season. Saunders originated with John Arris of Belleville, Ontario, Canada. 

 It was first exhibited before the Fruit -Growers' Association of Ontario at 

 St. Catherines in 1883. In 1884, upon its being again exhibited before 

 the same association, it was named Saunders in honor of the society's 

 noted president. The variety was mentioned in the catalog of the Amer- 

 ican Pomological Society in 1897. 



Tree of medium size, round-topped, very productive; branchlets brash, slender, 

 very pubescent; leaves flattened, obovate or oval, one and three-quarters inches wide, 

 four inches long, somewhat velvety, rugose; margin finely serrate, eglandular or with 

 small dark glands; petiole pubescent, glandless or with from one to three small glands; 

 blooming season intermediate in time and length; flowers appearing after the leaves, 

 one and one-quarter inches across, white; borne on lateral buds and spurs, usually singly; 

 pedicels very pubescent. 



Fruit early, season short; one and one-half inches by one and one-eighth inches 

 in size, oblong-oval, greenish-yellow changing to golden-yellow, covered with thin 

 bloom; skin thin, tender, slightly sour, cracking when fully mature; flesh yellowish, 

 tender and melting, sweet, mild; of good quality; stone free, one inch by five-eighths 

 inch in size, long-oval, flattened, with rough surfaces' ventral suture winged; dorsal 

 suture with a narrow, shallow groove. 



SERGEANT 



Prunus domestica 



i. Cal. State Bd. Hort. 49, 51. 1887. 2. Ibid. 234, 235. 1890. 3. Ibid. 105. 1891. 4. Wick- 

 son Cal. Fruits 357. 1891. 5. U, S. D. A. Div. Pom. Bui. 7:316, PI. IV fig. 2. 1898. 6. Am. 

 Pom. Soc. Cat. 39. 1899. 7. Waugh Plum Cult. 121. 1901. 



Prune d'Ente 2. Prunier Datte i. Robe de Sergent 2, 5, 6. Robe de Sergeant 7. Robe de 

 Sergent i, 3, 4. 



In France, from whence Sergeant was imported to California, Ser- 

 geant, Agen and Prunier Datte are held to be identical. But in America 



