366 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



Tree of medium size, round-topped, productive; leaves drooping, folded backward, 

 narrow-obovate, two and one-quarter inches wide, four and one-half inches long, thick; 

 margin doubly serrate, with small, yellowish glands; petiole one-half inch long, tinged 

 red, pubescent, sometimes with two globose, yellowish-red glands usually on the stalk 

 near the base of the leaf; blooming season early, short; flowers appearing after the 

 leaves, fully one and one-eighth inches across, dull white; borne on lateral buds and 

 spurs, singly or in pairs. 



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

 one-half inches in size, ovate, necked, slightly enlarged on the suture side, dark lemon- 

 yellow, with thin bloom; dots very numerous, of medium size, white, conspicuous; stem 

 adhering strongly to the fruit; skin tough, sour; flesh dark amber-yellow, very tender, 

 sweet, mild; poor; stone free, one and three-eighths inches by five-eighths inch in size, 

 long-oval, flattened, somewhat necked, acute at the apex, the surfaces smooth or 

 partially honeycombed; ventral suture prominent. 



WALES 



Prunus domestica 



I. Gard. Chron. 5:837. 1845. 2. Mag. Hort. 12:340. 1846. 3. Mcintosh Bk. Gard. 529. 1855. 

 4. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 392. 1857. S- Thompson Gard. Ass't 515. 1859. 6. Ann. Pom. Beige 

 7, PI. 1859. 7. Mas Pow. ffffM. 2:119, fig. 60. 1873. 8. FZor. & Pom. 253, PI. 1875. g.W.N.Y. 

 Hort. Soc. Rpt. 21:20. 1876. 10. Hogg Fruit Man. 718. 1884. 11. Mathieu Norn-. Pom. 443. 

 1889. 12. Ont. Fr. Exp. Sta. Rpt. 96, 120. 1896. 13. Cornell Sta. Bui. 131:190. 1897. 14. Am. 

 Pom,. Soc. Cat. 26. 1897. 15. Ohio Sta. Bui. 113:160. 1899. 16. Waugh Plum Cult. 125. 1901. 



Chapman's Prince of Wales, 3, 5. Chapman's Prince of Wales 4, 10, 11. Chapman's Prince 

 of Wales' Plum 1.. Prince Albert? 11. Prince De Galles 7. Prince De GaUes 6, 11. Prince of 

 Wales 2, 4, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15. Prince of Wales 7, 11, 14, 16. Prinz Von Wales 11. Prune 

 Prince of Whales 6. 



Wales, more commonly known as the Prince of Wales, seems to have 

 much merit yet it has long been grown in America, probably three-quarters 

 of a century, without attaining distinction with fruit-growers. In recent 

 years it has been favorably commented upon in a number of publications 

 and seems to be better known and more grown than formerly. Whether 

 this tardily -given recognition is not too late is a question. So many good 

 plums have been introduced both at home and abroad in the last few 

 decades that a sort dating back nearly a century must be meritorious, 

 indeed, to stand the competition. As Wales grows in New York, it is 

 rather too poor in quality to recommend it for a home variet}^ and the 

 plums are too small, as they generally grow, for a good commercial fruit. 

 The trees are enormously productive and are very satisfactory in other 

 characters as well. In a bulletin from the Cornell Station (References, 

 13) this variety is said to have " much to commend it for general favor:" 



