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Tree large, vigorous, round-topped, usually hardy, productive; branches sparingly 

 thorny, light ash-brown, smooth except for the few raised lenticels; branchlets thick, 

 long, with long intemodes, greenish-red changing to dark reddish-brown, marked with 

 scarf-skin, nearly glabrous throughout the season, with few, conspicuous, large, raised 

 lenticels; leaf -buds of medium size and length, conical or pointed, broad at the base, 

 appressed. 



Leaves folded upward, oval, one and one-half inches wide, three inches long; upper 

 surface lightly pubescent, with a grooved midrib; lower surface silvery-green, pubescent; 

 apex and base acute, margin crenate, with small, dark glands; petiole three-quarters 

 inch long, thick, with a red tinge, pubescent, glandless or with from one to three con- 

 spicuous, globose, bright yellow glands variable in size, usually on the stalk. 



Season of bloom intermediate, long; flowers appearing after the leaves, one inch 

 across, white, the buds tinged yellow as they open; borne on lateral spurs, in twos 

 or in threes; pedicels nearly one inch long, slender, with thin pubescence, greenish; 

 calyx-tube green, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes small, narrow, acute, pubescent 

 on the inner surface, erect; petals oval, entire, not clawed; anthers yellow with a tinge 

 of red; filaments three-eighths inch long; pistil glabrous, equal to the stamens in length, 

 often abortive. 



Fruit late, intermediate in length of ripening season; small, obovate of oval, 

 slightly necked, truncate at the base, compressed, halves equal; cavity shallow, narrow, 

 flaring; suture varies from shallow to deep, often prominent; apex depressed; color 

 dull green, changing to golden-yellow, overspread with thin bloom; dots numerous, 

 small, gray, inconspicuous, clustered about the apex; stem slender, very long, often 

 one and one-eighth inches in length, glabrous, adhering well to the fruit; skin thick, 

 tough, cUnging slightly; flesh light golden-yellow, juicy, fibrous, sweet, mild, pleasant, 

 not high in flavor; good; stone clinging, three-quarters inch by one-half inch in size, 

 oval, flattened, slightly acute at the base and apex, with roughened surfaces; ventral 

 suture finely grooved, blunt; dorsal suture with a wide, shallow groove. 



SAINT JULIEN 



Prunus insititia 



I. Miller Card. Diet. 3. 1754. 2. Land. Hurt. Soc. Cat. 153. 1831. 3. Prince Pom. Man. 2:73. 

 1832. 4. Noisette Man. Comp. Jard. 2:500. i860. 5. Downing Fr. Trees Am,. 946. 1869. 6. 

 Hogg Fruit Man. 725. 1884. 7. Mathieu Nom. Pom,. 449. 1889. 8. Rev. Hort. 438. 1892. 9. 

 Trait. Prat. Seek. Fruits 170. 1893. 10. Bot. Gaz. 26:425. 1898. 



Common Saint Julien 3. Common Saint Julien 5, 7. French St. Julien 3, 5, 7. Gros Saini- 

 Julien 3. Gros Saint-Julien 4. Kleine Blatte Julians Pftaume 7. Large Saint Julien ?3. Petit 

 Saint Julien 4. Petit Saint Julien 3, 5, 7. Prunus Insititia var 7. Prunus Domestica Juliana 10. 

 Prunier Saint-Julien 8. St. Julien 6. St. Julian 3. Saint Julien 3. Saint Julien Petit ?2. Saint- 

 Julien Petit 3, 5, 7. The St. Julian Plum i. Weichharige Schlehen Damascene 7. 



The Saint Julien plums, as we now use the name, constitute a division 

 of Prunus insititia used as propagating stocks. Whether the name was 

 ever applied to a specific variety can not be said. Miller, in 1754, described 



