THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 155 



BASSETT 



Prunus maritima 



I. Card. Mon. 17:335. 1875. 2. Cornell Sta. Bui. 38:75. 1892. 3. Bailey Ev. Nat. Fruits 

 214. 1898. 4. Wangh Plum Cult. 2 2g. 1901. $. Ohio Sta. Bui. 162:2 $4, 2 $5- i9°S- 6. S. Dak. 

 Sta. Bui. 93:10. 1905. 



Bassett's American 2, 3. Bassett's American 4. 



Bassett, the best known of the few cultivated varieties of Prunus 

 maritima, was fotind growing wild in New Jersey and was tiimed over 

 to a nurseryman, Wm. F. Bassett of Hamilton, New Jersey, who intro- 

 duced it in 1872. After its introduction it became somewhat popular in 

 the West, gaining quitea reputation as being "curculio proof." However, its 

 marked inferiority to varieties of other species, in both size and quality, 

 has now banished it from all commercial plantings. The following descrip- 

 tion is compiled. 



Tree vigorous, spreading. Fruit late mid-season; very small, roundish, dull red, 

 covered with thin bloom; skin thick, tough; flesh greenish-yellow; quality poor; stone 

 of medium size, roundish, smooth, free. 



BAVAY 



Prunus domestica 



I. Card. Chron. 6:65. 1S46. 2. Mag. Hort. 12:340. 1846. 3. Horticulturist 1:527. 1846. 

 4. 'LeeGen. Farmerio:24i. 1849. 5. Thomas Am. Fruit CuU. 328. 1849. 6. Elliott Fr. Boofe 423. 

 1854. 7. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 210. 1856. 8. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 370. fig. 1857. 9. U. S. 

 D. A. Rpt. 190, PI. XII. 1865. 10. Hogg Fnnt Man. 379. 1866. 11. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 

 897. 1869. 12. Pom. France 7:No. 6. 1871. 13. Mas Le Verger 6:93, fig. 47. 1866. 14. Ober- 

 dieck Deut. Obst. Sort. 437. 1881. 15. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 363. 1887. 16. Rev. Hort. 515. 

 1888. 17. Mathieu Nam. Pom. 422. i88g. 18. Mich. Sta. Bui. 129:32, 33. 1896. 19. Cornell 

 Sta. Bui. 131:191. 1897. 20. Mich. Sta. Btil. 169:241, 242. 1899. 21. Waugh Plum Cult. 96. 

 1901. 22. Va. Sta. Bui. 134:40. 1902. 23. Ohio Sta. Bui. 162:241. 1905. 



Bavay's Green Gage 17, 21. Bavay's Green Gage 11. Bavay's renkloie 12. Bavay's Reine 

 Claude 17. Bavays Reine-Claude 13. De Bavay 15. Monstreuse de Bavay 15. Monstrueuse de Bavay 

 10, II, 12, 17. Prune de Bavay 12, 17. Queen Claude of Bavay 6. Reine Claude 21, 23. Reine- 

 Claude de Bavay 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 19. Reine-Claude de Bavay 6, 11, 13, 17, 18, 21. 

 Reine-Claude Monstreuse de Bavey i. Reine-Claude Monot 17. Reine-Claude von Bavays 14. 

 St. Claire 10. Saint Clair 11, 17. Sainte-Claire 17. Saint-Claire 12. 



Bavay is one of the best of the green plums — a worthy rival in aU 

 respects and in some superior to its parent Reine Claude. It is unexcelled 

 as a dessert plum and its delicious flavor is retained in cooking, making 

 the somewhat rare combination of a first rate dessert and a first rate culi- 

 nary fruit. Bavay is not only satisfactory in the qualities which make 

 it desirable to the consumer but it is a good market plum for it both keeps 



