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with few, small, dark glands; petiole pubescent, with from one to three small glands 

 usually on the stalk; blooming season intermediate, short; flowers appearing after 

 the leaves, seven-eighths inch across ; borne on lateral buds and spurs, singly or in twos ; 

 petals roundish. 



Fruit early, season short; one and one-quarter inches by one and one-eighth 

 inches in size, roundish-oval or ovate, dark purplish-black, overspread with thick bloom; 

 flesh dull yellow, firm, sweet, mild, pleasant; of good quality; stone semi-free, three- 

 quarters inch by one-half inch in size, rather flat, oval, with rough and pitted surfaces. 



EARLY ROYAL 



Prunus domestica 



I. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 153. 1831. 2. Mag. Hort. 6:93. 1840. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 

 313. 1845. 4. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 341, fig. 260. 1849. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 86. 1862. 

 6. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 452. 1889. 7. Thompson Card. Ass't 4:159. 1901. 



Early Royal 3, 4, 6. Marian 6. Mirian 3, 4. Mivian 2. Miviam 6. Miriam 7. Royal 

 native I, 2, 5, 7. Royale Hitive 3, 4. Royale H&tive 6. Violette Konigspflaume 6. 



While the fruits of Early Royal are not remarkably attractive in color, 

 shape or size, the quality is high and its flesh is so firm that the variety 

 should ship well. This sort is worthy of more extensive trial than it has 

 yet had in America. Early Royal is a French variety introduced by M. 

 Noisette of Paris, about 1830. Thompson made the first complete descrip- 

 tion of the variety in 1839 from the fruits of a tree in the gardens of the 

 London Horticultural Society. Although recommended in the catalog of 

 the American Pomological Society in 1862 it has not been extensively 

 planted in this country. 



Tree large, vigorous, spreading, rather open, productive; branches and trunk 

 roughish; branchlets thickly pubescent; leaf -scars enlarged; leaves folded upward, 

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

 long; margin serrate, with small, dark glands; petiole thickly pubescent, with one or 

 two smallish glands; blooming season intermediate in time and length; flowers appearing 

 with the leaves, one inch across, white, tinged yellow at the apex of the petals; borne 

 on lateral buds and spurs, singly or in pairs. 



Fruit mid-season, ripening period long; about one and three-eighths inches in 

 diameter, roundish-ovate, dark reddish-purple, marked by irregular russet streaks, 

 covered with thick bloom; dots conspicuous; stem thick, pubescent; flesh greenish- 

 yellow, rather dry, firm, very sweet, mild, pleasant flavor; very good; stone- nearly 

 free, three-quarters inch by five-eighths inch in size, roundish-oval, blunt at the apex 

 and base, with but slightly roughened surfaces; ventral suture prominent and with short 

 wing; dorsal suture with a wide, shallow groove. 



