THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 379 



American Pomological Society placed this variety on the fruit catalog 

 list of the Society in 1875, dropped it in 1891, and replaced it in 1897. 



Tree very large and vigorous, wide-spreading, flat-topped, hardy in New York, 

 productive; branches rough and shaggy, dark ash-gray, with numerous, large, elongated 

 lenticels ; branchlets slender, long, with internodes of medium length, greenish-red 

 changing to dull reddish-brown, glossy, glabrous, with many, conspicuous, large, raised 

 lenticels; leaf -buds small, short, obtuse, free. 



Leaves folded upward, lanceolate, peach-like, four and one-quarter inches long, one 

 and one-half inches wide, thin; upper surface light or dark green changing to reddish 

 late in the season, smooth, glabrous, with a grooved midrib; lower surface pale green, 

 glabrous except along the midrib and larger veins; apex taper-pointed, base abrupt, 

 margin finely serrate, with small, reddish-black glands; petiole five-eighths inch long, 

 slender, pubescent along one side, tinged red, glandless or with from one to six globose, 

 yellow or reddish-brown glands on the stalk and base of the leaf. 



Blooming season late and long; flowers appearing after the leaves, three-quarters 

 inch across, white, with disagreeable odor; borne in clusters on lateral buds and spurs, 

 in threes or fours; pedicels five-eighths inch long, slender, glabrous, green; calyx-tube 

 greenish, narrowly campanulate; calyx-lobes narrow, glabrous on the outer surface, 

 lightly pubescent within, entire, heavily pubescent and with reddish glands on the 

 margin, erect; petals ovate, entire, long and narrowly clawed; anthers yellow, with a 

 tinge of red; filaments five-sixteenths inch long; pistil glabrous, equal to the stamens 

 in length. 



Fruit very early, season of medium length; one and three-eighths inches by one 

 and three -sixteenths inches in size, oval, halves equal; cavity small, narrow, shallow, 

 rather abrupt; suture an indistinct line; apex roundish or pointed; color bright red, 

 with thin bloom; dots few in number, light russet, somewhat conspicuous, clustered 

 about the apex; the stem attached to a stem-like growth from the fruit-spurs gives 

 the appearance on the tree of a jointed stem, very slender, three-quarters inch long, 

 glabrous, not adhering well to the fruit; skin tough, slightly astringent, separating 

 readily; flesh yellowish, very juicy and fibrous, tender and melting, sweet next the skin 

 but sour at the center, sprightly; fair to good; stone adhering, seven-eighths inch by 

 three-eighths inch in size, long and narrow-oval, flattened, slightly necked at the base, 

 acute at the apex, roughened; ventral suture wide, blunt, ridged; dorsal suture acute 

 or with a shallow, indistinct groove. 



WILLARD 



Prunus triflora 



i. Ohio Hort. Soc. Rft. 81. 1893. a. Cornell Sta. Bui. 62:31. 1894. 3. Ibid. 106:64. 1896. 

 4. Ibid. 131:194. 1897. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 26. 1897. 6. Mich. Sta. Bui. 177:42, 43. 1899. 

 7. Cornell Sta. Bui. 175:134 fig. 27. 1899. 8. Rural N. Y. 57:515, 530, 595. 1898. 9. Waugh 

 Plum Cult. 140. 1901. 10. Ga. Sta. Bui. 68:33. J 9S- " IM- Hon. Soc. Rpt. 420. 1905. 



Baton No. 26 2, 3, 9. Botan i. Botan No. 26 i. Willard Plum i. Willard Japan 8. 



