208 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



187:77, 78. 1901. 7. Waugii Plum Cult. loi, 104 fig. 1901. 8. Ohio Sta. Bui. 162:239, ^4° 



fig-. 254. zSS- 1905- 

 Early Bradshaw 2. 



This offspring of Bradshaw resembles its parent in tree, and in size, 

 color and shape of fruit, though not so closely as to be readily mistaken 

 for the older variety. Differences which distinguish the fruits of the 

 two are: The Field is a trifle smaller, the fruit is more nearly round, 

 lacking the prolonged neck of Bradshaw and is more plump at the base, 

 the parent plum being markedly obovate; Field is earlier than Bradshaw, 

 the latter difference accoimting for the synonym, "Early Bradshaw." The 

 quality is not such as to commend either of these pltims, but of the two 

 Field is slightly the better. In tree-characters, Bradshaw excels in having 

 a larger tree and in being more productive. The foHage of Field is very 

 good, it ripens its wood well and begins to bear while young, but it is in- 

 clined to a biennial bearing habit which makes the average in qtiantity 

 of fruit a little too low for a market plum which Field is, if worth planting 

 at all. A good quality of this variety is that it withstands the brown- 

 rot very well. It is doubtful if Field is worthy of a place in the fruit-growing 

 regions of New York, unless, perhaps, where a pltim of the Bradshaw type, 

 but a little earlier, is wanted. Like Bradshaw, Field is comparatively 

 little attacked by San Jose scale. 



Field is a seedling of Bradshaw grown in Schoharie County, New York. 

 It was first noted by S. D. Willard of Geneva, New York, in 1889, as "a 

 variety worthy of cultivation." 



Tree of medium size and vigor, upright-spreading, dense-topped, hardy, productive ; 

 branches ash-gray, smooth except for the numerous, small, raised lenticels; branchlets 

 slender, short, with intemodes of medium length, greenish-red changing to brownish- 

 drab, with a trace of red, dull, pubescent becoming slightly less so at maturity, with 

 numerous, inconspicuous, small lenticels; leaf -buds below medium in size, short, obtuse, 

 appressed. 



Leaves folded backward, obovate, two and one-sixteenth inches wide, four and 

 three-eighths inches long; upper surface dark green, nearly glabrous, with shallowly 

 grooved midrib; lower surface sparingly pubescent; apex abruptly pointed, base acute, 

 margin serrate, with a few, smallish, black glands; petiole seven-eighths inch long, 

 thick, tinged with red, sparingly pubescent. 



Season of bloom intermediate, short; flowers appearing after the leaves, one inch 

 across, white, with a yellowish tinge at the apex of the petals; scattered on lateral 

 buds and spurs, singly or in pairs; pedicels five-eighths inch long, thick, with few, short, 

 scattering hairs, greenish; calyx-tube green, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes above 

 medium in width, obtuse, slightly pubescent on both surfaces, glandular-serrate, 



