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added to the recommended list of fruits in the American Pomological 

 Society catalog. 



Tree large, vigorous, round-topped, hardy, not very productive ; branches numer- 

 ous, light ash-gray, with few, small, raised lenticels; branchlets thick, above medium 

 in length, with rather short intemodes, greenish-red changing to brownish-red, marked 

 with much scarf-skin, glabrous throughout the season, with few, small, slightly-raised 

 lenticels; ^ leaf -buds of medium size and length, conical, appressed; leaf-scars greatly 

 enlarged. 



Leaves folded upward, oval, one and three-quarters inches wide, three and one- 

 half inches long, thick, stiff; upper surface dark green, distinctly rugose, lightly pubes- 

 cent, with a shallow groove on the midrib; lower surface silvery-green, covered with 

 thick pubescence; apex abruptly pointed or acute, base rather abrupt, margin serrate 

 or crenate, eglandular or with small dark glands; petiole three-quarters inch long, 

 thick, greenish, pubescent, glandless or with one or two rather large, globose, yellow- 

 ish-green glands variable in position. 



Blooming season late, of medium length; flowers appearing with the leaves, nearly 

 one and one-quarter inches across, white; borne from lateral buds, usually singly; 

 pedicels five-eighths inch long, thick, pubescent, greenish; calyx-tube green, campanu- 

 late, glabrous; calyx-lobes narrow, obtuse, lightly pubescent on both surfaces, gland- 

 ular-serrate, refiexed; petals obovate or oval, crenate, short-clawed; anthers yellow; 

 filaments nearly one-half inch long; pistil glabrous except at the base, shorter than 

 the stamens. 



Fruit intermediate in time and length of ripening season; one and one-half inches 

 by one and three-eighths inches in size, roundish or ovate, slightly compressed, halves 

 equal; cavity shallow, narrow, abrupt; suture very shallow, often a line ; apex variable 

 in shape; color dark purple or purplish-black, overspread with thick bloom; dots 

 numerous, russet, conspicuous when the bloom is removed, clustered about the apex; 

 stem five-eighths inch long, thinly pubescent, adhering well to the fruit; skin thin, 

 separating readily; flesh dull yellow, juicy, somewhat fibrous, firm but tender, sweet, 

 of pleasant flavor; very good; stone semi-clinging, seven-eighths inch by five-eighths 

 inch in size, irregular-oval, flat, often contracted at the base into a long narrow neck, 

 blunt at the apex, with markedly rough and pitted surfaces; ventral suture swollen, 

 rather wide, distinctly furrowed, often with a prominent wing; dorsal suture with a 

 wide and deep groove. 



QUACKENBOSS 



Prunus domestica 



I. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 393. 1857. 2. CuUivaior 6:269 fig. 1838. 3. Thomas Am. Fruit 

 CuU. siS. 1867. 4. Downing Fr. Trees Am. g^i. 1869. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 24. 1871. 6. Mas. 

 Pom. Gen. 2:151, fig. 76. 1873. 7. Barry Fr. Garden 413. 1883. 8. Mich. Sta. Bui. 103:34, fig. 6. 

 1894. 9. Ont. Fr. Exp. Sta. Rpt. 32. 1893. 10. Cornell Sia. Bui. 131:191, fig. 40 II. 1897 

 II. Waugh Plum CuU. 119. 1901. 12. Va. Sta. Bui. 134:44. 1902. 



Quackenbos 9, 12. 



