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quarters inch long, pubescent at the base, adhering well to the fruit; skin toughish, 

 slightly astringent, separating readily; flesh golden-yellow, dry, tender, sweet, mild; 

 fair in quality; stone clinging, one inch by five-eighths inch in size, oval, flattened, 

 slightly roughened, blunt at the base and apex; ventral suture rather narrow, blunt; 

 dorsal suture widely and deeply grooved. 



LAWRENCE 



Prunus domestica 



I. Cultivator 10:167. 1843. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 54 1852. 3. Elliott Fr. Book 412. 1854. 

 4. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 928. 1869. 5. Pom. France 7: No. 29. 1871. 6. Mas Le Verger 

 6:75. 1866-73. 7- Hogg FrjtJi iVfaw. 710. 1884. %. Cat. Cong. Pom. France ^^g. 1887. g. Guide 

 Prat. 364. 1895. 10. Waugh Plum Cult. 112. 1901. 



Favorite de Lawrence 6, g. Lawrence Favorite S- Lawrences Reine Claude g. Lawrence's Favorite 

 ii ■', 3, 4i 7- Lawrence's Gage i, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9. Lawrence's Favorite 6, 8, 9, 10. Lawrence Gage 8. 

 Prune Lawrence Gage 5. Reine-Claude de Lawrence 6, 9. Reine-Claude de Lawrence 4, 5, 8. 



This variety is surpassed in the quality of its fruits by few pliims. 

 The trees bear young and abundantly and the fruit hangs well on the 

 tree; unfortunately, the plums do not ship nor keep well and the variety 

 thus fails as a market sort. It is, however, a delicious dessert fruit, deserv- 

 ing to be grown in every plum connoissetir's garden. Lawrence is a seedling 

 of Reine Claude, and was grown by L. V. Lawrence of Hudson, New York, 

 some time dtiring the second quarter of the last century. As its large size 

 and superior quality became known its popularity increased, until it was 

 cultivated not only in America, but to some extent throughout western 

 Europe. During the last twenty-five years, however, it has waned in popu- 

 larity, having been superseded by better commercial varieties, though it 

 still ranks high as a dessert plum. The American Pomological Society 

 placed Lawrence in its catalog in 1852, and retained it there until 1899. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, productive; trunk and branches rough, 

 with large lenticels; branchlets brash, dark reddish-brown, pubescent; leaves folded up- 

 ward, oval, two inches wide, three and three-quarters inches long, thick, leathery, 

 rugose; margin doubly serrate, with small glands; petiole pubescent, usually with two 

 small glands. 



Fruit medium early; one and three-eighths inches in diameter, roundish, greenish- 

 yellow, covered with thin bloom; skin thin, tender, slightly astringent; flesh yellowish, 

 fibrous, tender, sweet, aromatic; very good; stone free, seven-eighths inch by five- 

 eighths inch in size, oval, turgid, nearly smooth. 



LINCOLN 



Prunus domestica 



I. Lovett Cat. fig. 44. 1890-1900. 2. Rural N. Y. 56:595 fig. 253, 598. 1897. 3. Mich. Sta. 

 Bui. 169:242, 246. 1899. 4. Ohio Sta. Bui. 113:159. 1899. 5. Can. Exp. Farm Bui. 2d Ser. 3:53. 



