236 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



dots numerous, small, russet, inconspicuous, clustered about the apex; stem med 

 in thickness and length, pubescent, adhering well to the fruit; skin thin, tender, slig 

 astringent, separating readily; flesh greenish-yellow changing to light golden-yel 

 dry, firm but tender, sweet, mild, somewhat astringent towards the center; fai: 

 quality; stone variable in adhesion but usually clinging, large, ovate or oval, b 

 at the base and apex, strongly roughened and pitted; ventral suture faintly win 

 dorsal suture acute or lightly grooved. 



GUTHRIE LATE 



Prunus domestica 



I. Mcintosh Bk. Gard. 2:532. 1855. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 919. 1869. 3. Hogg 1 

 Man. 705. 1884. 4. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 434. 1889. 5. Rivers Cat. 1898. 6. Am. Gard. j 

 21:173. 1900. 



Guthrie's Minette i. Guthrie's Late Green 6. Guthrie Green 6. Guthrie's Late Gree 

 3, 4. Minette 2, 3, 4. Verte Tardive de Guthrie 4. 



Guthrie Late has never attained commercial importance in the Uni 

 States, being found only in collections ; but in England, according to He 

 it is a very fine dessert plum, rivalling the Reine Claude in quality < 

 ripening a month later. On the grounds of this institution it has fa: 

 because the fruits are small, dull in color and do not keep well. Of 

 several varieties produced from seed of Reine Claude by Charles Guth 

 Taybank, Dvmdee, Scotland, about the middle of the last century, Gutl 

 Late is the best known. 



Tree large, vigorous, round-topped, dense, productive; branches stocky; brai 

 lets pubescent; leaf -buds large, short, with a peculiar brush-like apex; leaves fol 

 upward, oval, one and seven-eighths inches wide, three and one-half inches long, th 

 rugose; margin crenate, eglandular or with small, dark glands; petiole thick, glanc 

 or with from one to four globose glands; blooming season short; flowers appea 

 after the leaves, one inch across, white tinged with yellow at the apex of the pel 

 borne on lateral buds and spurs, singly or in pairs. 



Fruit mid-season, ripening period long; of medium size, roundish-truncate, 

 greenish-yellow, often irregularly splashed and striped with green, overspread with 

 bloom; skin thin, slightly astringent; flesh light golden-yellow, rather dry, fibr 

 somewhat tender, sweet, pleasant in flavor; of good quality; stone free, seven-eig] 

 inch by flve-eighths inch in size, ovate or oval, medium turgid, with rough surfaces. 



HALE 



Prunus triflora 



I. Burbank Cat. 19. 1893. 2. Ibid. 1894. 3. Cornell Sta. Bui. 106:52. 1896. 4. Ga. 1 

 Soc. Rpt. XI. 1897. 5. Am. Pom. Sac. Cat. 41. 1899. 6, Cornell Sta. Bui. 175:147, 148, fig 



