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roundish-ovate, entire, narrowly clawed; anthers yellowish; filaments one-quarter 

 inch long; pistil glabrous, equal to the stamens in length. 



Fruit mid-season, ripening period short; one and three-eighths inches by one and 

 one-eighth inches in size, halves equal; cavity shallow, flaring; suture very shallow, 

 distinct; apex roundish or depressed; color dark red, covered with thin bloom; dots 

 numerous, medium to large, russet, conspicuous, clustered about the apex; stem one- 

 half inch long, glabrous, adhering to the fruit; skin thick, tough, clinging; flesh golden- 

 yellow, juicy, fibrous, somewhat tender, sweet, insipid; quality fair; stone clinging, 

 one inch by five-eighths inch in size, oval, flattened, pointed at the base and apex, with 

 smooth surfaces. 



TENNANT 

 Prunus domestica 



I. Bailey Ann. Hort. 133. 1893. 2. Oregon Sta. Bui. 45:32. 1897. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat 

 40. 1899. 4. Can. Exp. Farm Bui. 2nd Ser. 3:57. 1900. 5. Waugh Plum Cult. 124. 1901. 6 

 Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 326. 1903. 



Tennant Prune j.. Tenant Prune 4. 



It is surprising that a variety of so much merit, especially of so great 

 beauty, as Tennant, should not have been more widely tried in New York. 

 In the survey of plum culture in this State in the preparation of the text 

 for The Plums of New York, it could not be learned that the Tennant had 

 been tried in more than four or five places. In size and beauty of form 

 and coloring, all well shown in the illustration, Tennant has few superiors 

 in the collection of plums growing at this Station. While it is not suffi- 

 ciently high in quality to be called a first-rate dessert fruit it is more palat- 

 able than most of the purple plums. It ripens at a good time of the year, 

 several days before the Italian Prune, and should, from the nature of its 

 skin and the firmness of its flesh, both ship and keep well. A fault of the 

 fruit as it grows here, a fault not ascribed to it elsewhere, is that it shrivels 

 soon after ripening. Our trees are large, vigorous, healthy, hardy and 

 productive — almost ideal plum-trees. This variety should be very generally 

 tried in commercial plantations in New York and may well be planted in 

 home collections for a culinary fruit at least. On the Pacific Coast it is 

 cured for prunes, its meaty flesh fitting it very well for this purpose. 



This is another promising plum from the Pacific Northwest. Tennant 

 originated with Rev. John Tennant of Femdale, Washington, and was 

 introduced in 1893 by McGill and McDonald, Salem, Oregon. The variety 

 is fairly well known in the region of its origin but is practically unknown 

 in New York. It was listed in the American Pomological Society catalog 

 in 1897 as successful in the Pacific Northwest. 



