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Blooming season intermediate in time and length; flowers appearing after the 

 leaves, one and five-sixteenths inches across, white; borne on lateral spurs, usually in 

 pairs; pedicels five-eighths inch long, slender, covered with short pubescence, greenish; 

 calyx-tube green, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes narrow, obtuse, glabrous on the 

 outer surface, thinly pubescent along the margin and at the base of the inner surface, 

 glandular-serrate, reflexed; petals oval, dentate or fringed, tapering below to short, 

 broad claws; anthers distinctly reddish; filaments seven-sixteenths inch in length; 

 pistil glabrous, equal to the stamens in length. 



Fruit late; one and one-half inches by one and one-eighth inches in diameter, 

 ovate, halves equal; cavity very shallow, narrow, flaring; suture a line; apex roundish; 

 color dull black, overspread with thick bloom; dots numerous, small, brownish, incon- 

 spicuous; stem slender, three-quarters inch long, sparingly pubescent, adhering well 

 to the fruit; skin thin, tough, separating readily; flesh greenish, juicy, fibrous, tender, 

 sweet, pleasant and sprightly; good; stone variable in adhesion, seven-eighths inch 

 by one-half inch in size, oval, roughened, acute at the base, blunt at the apex; 

 ventral suture rather narrow, heavily furrowed and somewhat winged; dorsal suture 

 with a shallow groove of medium width. 



FROGMORE 



Prunus insititia 



I. Flor. & Pom. 265, PI. 1876. 2. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 289. 1889. 3. Can. Exp. Farm 

 Bui. 2n(i Ser. 3:51. 1900. 4. Waugh Plum Cult. 130. 1901. 

 Frogmore Damson i, 2. Frogmore Prolific Damson 3. 



Frogmore may be considered among the best of the Damsons in 

 quality for the culinary purposes to which this fruit is commonly put. The 

 flesh is tender, sweet and good, but adheres rather too tightly to the stone. 

 The tree of Frogmore is all that could be desired in productiveness and 

 quite equals most other Damsons in general and probably surpasses them 

 all, at least on the grounds at this Station, in length of time that the fnoit 

 hangs on the tree. The habit of growth of this variety varies from that of 

 Prunus insititia as commonly found, the leaves being larger, the tops more 

 spreading and the branches less thorny. The variety has hardly been 

 tried enough in New York to warrant either recommending or condemn- 

 ing it. According to the Florist and Pomologist, published in 1876, this 

 variety originated a few years previous to the date of publication in the 

 Royal Gardens at Frogmore, England. 



Tree inferior in size and vigor, round-topped, open, hardy, very productive; branches 

 thorny, the bark on the older branches splitting transversely to the direction of growth, 

 making grooves or rings about three inches apart and two inches or more in length; 

 branchlets slender, almost glabrous throughout the season, covered with light bloom; 



