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ents seems to have been made. M. Latinois introduced it into commerce in 

 1885-1886 and consequently his name became attached to the variety. 

 The plum is not well known in America, there being 'only one published 

 American reference. This Station received the variety for testing in 1899 

 from the United States Department of Agriculture. It has value on ac- 

 count of its high quality and its lateness, and is worthy of extensive 

 testing. 



Tree small, upright-spreading, dense-topped, productive; branchlets develop 

 fruit-spurs near the base; leaf -buds strongly appressed; leaves folded upward, long- 

 oval or obovate, one and five-eighths inches wide, three and three-quarters inches long, 

 somewhat leathery; margin doubly serrate or crenate, with small dark glands; bloom- 

 ing season intermediate in time and length; flowers appearing after the leaves, over 

 one inch across; borne in thin clusters on lateral buds and spurs, singly or in pairs. 



Fruit very late, season of medium length; nearly one and one-half inches in diameter, 

 roundish, slightly truncate, yellowish-green, with a delicate bloom and a pink blush 

 on the exposed cheek; flesh greenish-yellow, very juicy, firm but tender, sweet, aro- 

 matic, ot high flavor; very good to best; stone semi-free or free, three-quarters inch, 

 by one-half inch in size, irregular-oval, flattened, rather blunt at the base and apex, 

 with roughened surfaces; ventral suture strongly furrowed, often with a distinct wing. 



CHAMPION 



Prunus domestica 



I. Wickson Cal. Fruits 360. 1891. 2. Oregon Hort. Soc. Rpt. 147. 1893. 3. Ant. Pom. Sac. 

 Rpt. 150. 1895. 4. Oregon Sta. Bui. 45:30. 1897. 

 Champion Prune, i, 2, 3. 



The Champion was introduced with the expectation that it would be 

 a valuable fruit for curing into prunes. It has not proved to be a good 

 plum for pnme-making, as it is too juicy, about three-fourths of its bulk 

 evaporating, but the western pliim-growers have found it a very good 

 plum for shipping in the fresh state. It is very attractive in appear- 

 ance, firm, free of stone, sweet and pleasant and withal of rather high 

 quality. The tree-characters, as the plums grow in Geneva, are in the 

 main very good, falling short, if at all, in productiveness. They are such 

 as to lead to the recommendation of a trial for this plum by plxun-growers 

 in general in New York. 



This variety is a seedling of the Italian Prune produced by Jesse 

 Bvillock, Oswego, Oregon, about 1876, and introduced by C. E. Hoskins, 

 Springbrook, Oregon. Since the Italian Prune comes nearly true to seed 

 it is very doubtful if this variety is a pure-bred seedling judging from 

 the characters of the fruit as given below: 



