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of the Iowa Agricultural College stated in 1885 that for over a quarter of 

 a century the original tree had not failed to produce a partial or large 

 crop annually on the grounds of the originator. A spurious clingstone 

 type of the Wolf has been propagated in some nurseries but this false 

 plum is readily distinguished from the true freestone type. The variety 

 was added to the American Pomological Society fruit catalog list in 1889, 

 dropped in 1891, and replaced in 1897. 



Tree large, vigorous, spreading, low, and open-topped, hardy, productive, healthy; 

 branches rough and shaggy, thorny, dark ash-gray, with numerous, small lenticels; 

 branchlets somewhat slender, short, twiggy, with internodes below medium in length, 

 green changing to dull brownish-drab, overspread with thick pubescence, with numerous, 

 small lenticels; leaf -buds very small, short, conical, strongly appressed. 



Leaves falling early, oval, one and seven-eighths inches wide, three and seven- 

 eighths inches long, thin; upper surface medium green, lightly pubescent, with a narrow 

 groove on the midrib; lower surface silvery-green, pubescent; apex taper-pointed, 

 margin coarsely and doubly serrate, eglandular; petiole one-half inch long, velvety, 

 tinged red, glandless or with one or two small, globose, yellowish glands on the stalk 

 or base of the leaf. 



Blooming season of average length, late; flowers opening after the leaves, one inch 

 across, the buds tinged yellow changing to white as the flowers expand; borne on lateral 

 buds and spurs; pedicels nine-sixteenths inch long, thickly pubescent, green; calyx- 

 tube greenish-red, campanulate, covered with short, fine pubescence; calyx-lobes narrow, 

 acute, heavily pubescent on both surfaces, with few marginal glands, reflexed; petals 

 inclined to curl, long-oval, fringed, long and narrowly clawed; anthers yellowish; fila- 

 ments three-eighths inch long; pistil sparingly hairy on the ovary, equal to or shorter 

 than the stamens, frequently defective. 



Fruit mid-season, ripening period short; less than one inch in diameter, roundish- 

 oval or somewhat obovate, compressed, halves equal; cavity frequently yellowish, 

 shallow, narrow, abrupt; suture an indistinct line; apex roundish or flattened; color 

 dull crimson, thickly mottled, overspread with thick bloom; dots numerous, small, 

 russet, inconspicuous; stem slender, glabrous, adhering poorly to the fruit; skin thick, 

 tough, slightly roughened, astringent, adhering; flesh golden-yellow, very juicy, fibrous, 

 tender and melting, sweet next the skin, but astringent toward the center; fair to good; 

 stone semi-free to free, five-eighths inch by three-eighths inch in size, roundish-obovate, 

 tapering at the base, blunt at the apex, with smooth surfaces; ventral suture winged; 

 dorsal suture acute, or with a faint, narrow groove. 



WOOD 



Prunus americana 



i. Minn. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 60. 1894. 2. Wis. Sta. Bui. 63:64. 1897. 3. Minn. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 

 433. 1898. 4. Waugh Plum Cult. 168. 1901. 



