362 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



be detected are that the Italian Prune is a trifle smaller, a little more firm, 

 not as broad and not quite as sweet as the Ungarish. The pit of the latter 

 is usually tinged with red, while that of the former is rarely so colored. 

 If the Ungarish prove as productive as the Italian Prune it may be more 

 desirable because of its larger size. In 1883 Professor J. L. Budd of the 

 Iowa Experiment Station imported trees under the name Quetsche de Hon- 

 grie or Zwetsche Ungarische from C. H. Wagner of Riga, Russia and from 

 Wilhelm Wohler of Wilna, Russia. Budd disseminated the variety as 

 Hungary, a name soon changed to Hungarian Prune and later to Ungarish. 

 This is not to be confused with the true Hungarian so well known in Europe 

 as the Quetsche de Hongrie. 



UTAH 

 Prunus besseyi X Prunus watsoni 



i. Dieck in Dippel Laubholzkwtde 3:634. 1893. 2. Cornell Sta. Bui. 70:262, PI. II fig. 3. 

 1894. 3. Tex. Sta. Bui. 32:490. 1894. 4. Vt. Sta. Bui. 67:21. 1898. 5. Waugh Plum Cult. 

 225. 1901. 



Black Utah Hybrid 2, 4, 5. Utah Hybrid i, 2, 3, 4, 5. 



This interesting natural hybrid was grown by J. E. Johnson at Wood 

 River, Nebraska, some time previous to 1870. Mr. Johnson planted seed 

 of the native dwarf cherry which had grown near Sand plums and which 

 supposedly had been pollinized by the plums. The resulting plants proved 

 to be intermediates between the cherry and the plum and are now generally 

 thought to be natural hybrids. From these seedlings, one was selected 

 and propagated. Shortly afterwards Mr. Johnson moved to Utah taking 

 his new hybrid with him and from there distributed it as Utah. In 1893 

 a German botanist, Dieck (References, i), described this hybrid and gave 

 it the specific name Prunus utahensis. The plant has no commercial value. 

 It is described as follows: 



Tree a dwarfish tree-like bush three or four feet in height ; branches and branchlets 

 zigzag after the habit of Prunus watsoni: leaves small, narrow-ovate, pointed at the 

 ends; margins crenulate, glandless, sometimes small glands on the petioles; fruit early, 

 small, round, dark mahogany-red, covered with bloom; skin very bitter; flesh melting; 

 pleasant flavor; quality poor; stone small, round like that of a cherry. 



VICTORIA 



i 



Prunus domestica 



i. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 153. 1831. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 315. 1845. 3- Ann. Pom. 

 Beige 45, PL 1856. 4. Thompson Card. A ss't 516. 1859. 5. Cultivator 8:26 fig. 1860. 6. Am. 

 Pom. Soc. Cat. 88. 1862. 7. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 349 fig. 379. 1867. 8. Downing Fr. Trees 



