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seedling on the shore of Cayuga Lake near the town of Sheldrake, New 

 York. It was discovered and propagated by J. T. Hunt of Kendaia, New 

 York, and has been under test at the Geneva Station since 1895. 



Tree large, vigorous, round-topped, productive; branchlets thick, with long inter- 

 nodes, pubescent; leaves drooping, somewhat flattened, oval, nearly two and one-half 

 inches wide, four and one-quarter inches long; margin serrate with few, small, dark 

 glands; petiole pubescent, tinged red, thick, glandless or with from one to four rather 

 large glands usually at the base of the leaf; blooming season intermediate in time, short; 

 flowers appearing after the leaves, nearly one and one-quarter inches across; borne 

 singly or in pairs. 



Fruit rather early; one and one-half inches by one and three-eighths inches in 

 size, roundish-oblong; cavity very deep, abrupt; color purplish-black, overspread with 

 thick bloom; dots conspicuous; stem thickly pubescent; skin thin, tender, slightly 

 acid; flesh yellow, tender, sweet next the skin, but sour near the center, inferior in 

 flavor; poor in quality; stone dark-colored, semi-clinging, one inch by three-quarters 

 inch in size, broadly ovate or irregularly oval, flattened, with roughened and gran- 

 ular surfaces; ventral suture prominent, blunt. 



SHIPPER 



Prunus domestica 



i. Card. Man. 24:339. 1882. 2. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 31:60. 1886. 3. Cornell Sta. Bui. 

 131:191, fig. 42. 1897. 4. Mich. Sta. Bui. 169:243, 247. 1899. 5. Can. Exp. Farm Bui. and 

 Ser. 3:56. 1900. 6. Mich. Sta. Bui. 187:77, 79. 1901. 7. Waugh Plum Cult. 119. 1901. 



Pride 7. Shipper Pride 4. Shippers' Pride 7. Shipper's Pride i, 2, 3, 5, 8. 



This plum has never become an important commercial variety in 

 New York yet it is offered for sale by a surprisingly large number of nursery- 

 men. The variety has too many faults to succeed in competition with the 

 many good plums of its color and season. The flesh is dry and the plums 

 often shrivel on the tree, characters which fit it for shipping, but which 

 when taken with poor quality and small size make it of little value after 

 it reaches the market. Moreover it fruits sparingly under many condi- 

 tions, though productive here, and the plums ripen somewhat unevenly 

 and are susceptible to brown -rot. Some pomologists give a rather better 

 estimate of the variety than that expressed here, but from all data at 

 hand the value of the plum is not underestimated in the above state- 

 ments. There are a great many better plums for New York than Shipper. 



This variety was introduced by Mr. H. S. Wiley of Cayuga, New York. 

 The plum was found by Mr. Wiley in a private garden at Port Byron, New 

 York, about 1877. The man upon whose place it grew thought that it 



