212 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



FOTHERINGHAM 



Prunus domestica 



1. Rea Flora 208. 1676. 2. Langley Pomona 91. 1729. 3. Miller Gard. Diet. 3:1734. 4. 

 Forsyth Treat. Fr. Trees 19. 1803. 5. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 299. 1845. 6. Floy-Lindley Guide 

 Orch. Gard. 286, 383. 1846. 7. Thompson Gard. Ass't 517. 1859. 8. Hogg Fruit Man. 701. 

 1884. 9. Waugh Plum CuU. 102. 1901. 



Foderingham i. Fotheringay 8. Foderingham Plum 2. Grove House Purple 5, 7, 8. Red 

 Fotheringham 8. Sheen 2, 5, 6, 7, 8. 



Fotheringham is probably one of the oldest varieties of plums now 

 cultivated. Although but little if at all grown in this country, it has 

 maintained its place among standard English varieties for at least two 

 and a half centuries. The exact time of its origin is not certain, but it 

 was undoubtedly during the first half of the Seventeenth Century as Hogg 

 records a reference made to it by Rea in 1665. It was first grown exten- 

 sively at Sheen, in Surrey, England, about 1700 by Sir William Temple, 

 who gave it the name Sheen. The variety is described as foUows: 



Tree hardy, vigorous, productive. Fruit matures just before Reine Claude; of 

 medium size, obovate; suture distinct; stem one inch long; color reddish-purple with 

 thin bloom; flesh greenish-yellow, sweet, sprightly; good; freestone. 



FREEMAN 



Prunus domestica 



As this variety grows in the Station orchard it is a remarkably fine 

 plum. The fruits are attractive, of high quality and the tree-characters 

 are for most part very good. It is certainly a desirable plum for any 

 home plantation, and if it proves as productive elsewhere as about Geneva, 

 it may well be worth growing in commercial orchards. 



Freeman is a chance seedling found in the yard of a Mr. Freeman of 

 Cortland, New York, about 1890 and shortly afterwards introduced by 

 E. Smith & Sons of Geneva, New York, but is as yet hardly known by plum- 

 growers. 



Tree intermediate in size and vigor, upright-spreading, productive; branchlets 

 slender, pubescent; leaves oval, one and one-half inches wide, two and three-quarters 

 inches long; margin serrate or almost crenate, eglandular or with small dark glands; 

 petiole reddish, glandless or with from one to four globose glands; blooming season 

 intermediate, short; flowers appearing after the leaves, creamy- white, usually in scatter- 

 ing clusters at the ends of lateral spurs; borne singly or in twos. 



