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63:53. 1897. 7. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 25. 1897. 8. Ohio Sta. Bui. 113:156. 1899. 9. la. Sta. 

 Bill. 46:287. 1900. 10. Waugh Plum Cult. 199 fig. 1901. 11. Ga. Sta. Bui. 67:279. 1904. 



The plum under notice is possibly of greater cultural value than any 

 other of its species especially for northern latitudes. It is of high quality 

 for a native pltim, the texture of the fruit being especially pleasing in 

 eating, and though melting and jmcy it keeps and ships very well because 

 of a tough skin. It escapes both the curculio and the brown-rot to a higher 

 degree than most of its kind. The trees, though dwarfish at maturity, are 

 vigorous, productive and among the hardiest of the Mimsoniana plums, 

 growing without danger of winter injury to tree or bud as far north as 

 the forty-fourth parallel. Pottawattamie is deservedly one of the best 

 known of the native plums and if varieties of its species are to be grown 

 in New York, is as desirable as any. 



Pottawattamie, according to the most authoritative accounts, was 

 taken from Tennessee to Iowa with a lot of Miner trees. It came tmder 

 the notice of J. B. Rice, Cotmcil Bluffs, Iowa, in 1875, and was introduced 

 by him and named after one of the counties of his State. 



Tree medium in. size, strong and vigorous when young becoming spreading and 

 somewhat dwarfish when older, round-topped, hardy at Geneva, usually productive; 

 branches dark brown, zigzag, thorny, roughened by the numerous, raised lenticels of vari- 

 ous sizes which are often narrow and much elongated; branchlets slender, long, with 

 internodes of medium length, greenish-red changing to dark chestnut-red, glabrous, 

 with numerous, conspicuous, large, raised lenticels ; leaf -buds small, short, obtuse, free. 



Leaves flat or folded upward, lanceolate, peach-like, one and one-eighth inches 

 wide, three and one-quarter inches long, thin; upper surface light green, reddish late 

 in the season, smooth, glossy, with a grooved midrib ; lower surface pale green, lightly 

 pubescent along the midrib and larger veins; apex taper-pointed, base abrupt, margin 

 finely serrate or crenate, with small, reddish glands; petiole one inch long, slender, 

 tinged red, thinly pubescent, glandless or with from one to five very small, globose, 

 reddish-yellow glands usually on the stalk. 



Blooming season late and long; flowers appearing after the leaves, five-eighths 

 inch across, creamy-white as the buds unfold changing to whitish, with a disagreeable 

 odor ; borne in clusters from lateral buds, in threes, fours or fives ; pedicels five-eighths 

 inch long, very slender, glabrous, greenish; calyx-tube green, broadly obconic, glabrous, 

 calyx-lobes narrow, somewhat acute, pubescent on the inner surface, serrate, with 

 reddish glands and hairy margin, erect; petals small, oval, slightly toothed, narrowly 

 clawed; anthers yellowish; filaments one-quarter inch long; pistil glabrous, shorter 

 than the stamens. 



Fruit early, season of medium length; variable in size ranging from seven -eighths 

 inch to one and one-eighth inches in diameter, roundish-oval, slightly compressed. 



