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in the London Horticultural Society fniit catalog in 183 1 but no informa- 

 tion in regard to the date of its origin seems to have been published. In 

 1 87 1 the American Pomological Society added it to its fruit catalog list 

 but dropped it in 1897. 



Tree very large and vigorous, round-topped, open, hardy, very productive; branches 

 smooth, becoming rough near the trunk, ash-gray, with lenticels of medium size and 

 number; branchlets somewhat slender, short, with long intemodes, greenish-red chang- 

 ing to dull reddish-brown, marked by scarf-skin, dull, glabrous, with few, inconspicuous, 

 small lenticels; leaf -buds above medium in size and length, pointed, free; leaf-scars 

 prominent. 



Leaves folded backward, oval or obovate, one and five-eighths inches wide, three 

 and one-quarter inches long, leathery; upper surface dark green, sparingly hairy, with 

 a shallow groove on the midrib ; lower surface yellowish-green, pubescent ; apex abruptly 

 pointed or acute, base acute, margin crenate, bearing small, dark glands; petiole one- 

 half inch long, pubescent, with a little red , glandless or with one or two small, globose, 

 yellowish glands. 



Blooming season intermediate in time, short; flowers appearing with the leaves, 

 one and one-eighth inches across, white, creamy at the apex of the petals in the newly 

 opened flowers; borne on lateral buds and spurs, singly or in pairs; pedicels one-half 

 inch long, thick, pubescent, greenish; calyx- tube green, campanulate, pubescent at 

 the base; calyx-lobes broad, obtuse, pubescent on both surfaces, glandular-ciUate, some- 

 what refiexed; petals roundish-ovate, erose; anthers yellow; filaments about one- 

 quarter inch long; pistil glabrous except at the base, slightly longer than the stamens; 

 stigma large. 



Fruit mid-season; one and five-eighths inches by one and one-half inches in size, 

 irregular roundish-truncate, halves unequal; cavity shallow, narrow, abrupt; suture 

 usually shallow, prominent; apex flattened or depressed; color dull yellow with greenish 

 streaks, sometimes with pinkish blush about the cavity, mottled, overspread with thin 

 bloom; dots numerous, small, inconspicuous; stem thick, three-quarters inch long, 

 pubescent, adhering well to the fruit; skin thin, tough, sour, separating readily; flesh 

 greenish-yellow, juicy, firm but tender, sweet, aromatic; very good; stone nearly 

 free, seven-eighths inch by five-eighths inch in size, broadly oval, turgid, slightly con- 

 tracted at the blunt base, roundish at the apex, with rough and pitted surfaces; ventral 

 suture broad, with a distinct but small wing; dorsal suture widely and deeply grooved. 



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Prunus triflora 



1. Ga. Hon. Soc. Rpt. 53, 99. 1889. 2. XJ . S. D. A. Rpt. 392. 1891. 3. Wickson Cal. Fruits 

 360. 1891. 4. Cornell Sta. Bui. 106:46, 63. 1896. 5. Ala. Col. Sta. Bui. 85:445. 1897. 6. 

 Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 26. 1897. 7. Am. Gard. 19:75, 132, 220, 792. 1898. 8. Mich. Sta. Bui. 

 169:242, 249. 1899. 9. Cornell Sta. Bui. 175:143. 1899. 10. Waugh Plum. Cult. 134. igoi. 

 II. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 88. 1902. 12. Can. Hart. 25:272. 1902. 13. Budd-Hansen Am. 



