270 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



petiole one-half inch long, thick, tinged red, pubescent, glandless or with one or two 

 globose, yellowish-green glands usually at the base of the leaf. 



Blooming season short; flowers appearing after the leaves, one inch across, the buds 

 creamy-yellow, changing to white on expanding; borne in clusters on short, lateral 

 spurs, singly or in pairs; pedicels nine-sixteenths inch long, slender, nearly glabrous; 

 calyx- tube greenish, campanulate, pubescent only at the base; calyx-lobes obtuse, 

 pubescent on both surfaces, glandular-serrate, strongly reflexed; petals oval, entire 

 or occasionally notched at the apex, short-clawed; anthers yellow; filaments five- 

 sixteenths inch long; pistil pubescent only on the ovary, longer than the stamens. 



Fruit mid-season, ripening period long; one and three-quarters inches by one 

 and five-eighths inches in size, oval or roundish-oval, slightly compressed, halves 

 unequal; cavity narrow, abrupt, roundish; suture usually a line; apex roundish or 

 flattened; color light to dark purplish-red, overspread with thick bloom; dots numerous, 

 small, light russet; stem slender, three-quarters inch long, adhering well to the fruit; 

 skin thin, tender, separating readily; flesh yellowish, juicy, slightly fibrous, firm and 

 sweet, mild; inferior in quality; stone semi-free to free, one inch by five-eighths inch 

 in size, daik colored, oval, flattened, roughened; base and apex acute; ventral suture 

 slightly furrowed, acute; dorsal suture widely and rather deeply grooved. 



LONG FRUIT 



Prunus triflora 



I. Wild Bros. Cat. 27. 1892. 2. Cornell Sta. Bid. 62:26. 1894. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 26. 

 1897-99. 4- Waugh Plum Cult. 138. 1901. 

 Long Fruited i. 



Long Fruit is noted among the leading varieties of plums in The Plums 

 of New York chiefly to condemn it. On the grounds of this Station and 

 elsewhere in New York where tested, the trees are unproductive, the crop 

 drops badly and the fruits are small and poor in quality. The variety 

 was imported from Japan in 1885 by Luther Burbank. 



Tree large, vigorous, vasiform to spreading, unproductive; branches roughened 

 by numerous raised lenticels; branchlets slender, with short intemodes, glabrous, 

 marked by scarf-skin; leaves oblanceolate, somewhat peach-like, one inch wide, two 

 and one-half inches long, thin; margin finely crenate, with small, amber glands; petiole 

 slender, tinged with red, glandless or with from one to five small glands usually on the 

 stalk; blooming season early; flowers appearing after the leaves, seven-eighths inch 

 across; borne singly or in pairs; calyx-tube much swollen at the base. 



Fruit early; one inch by one and one-eighth inches in size, roundish-oblate; cavity 

 deep; color dark red over a yellow ground, covered with thin bloom; stem slender, 

 adhering poorly to the fruit; skin thick, somewhat astringent; flesh greenish-yellow 

 or pale yellow, tender, sweet, mild; poor in quality; stone semi-clinging, small, one-half 

 inch by three-eighths inch in size, roundish-oval, turgid, blunt at the base, the apex 

 terminating abruptly in a small, sharp point, with smooth surfaces. 



