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uniform, yellowish overlaid with purplish-red, mottled, covered with thin bloom; dots 

 numerous, small, often purplish, inconspicuous; skin thick, very tough, astringent, 

 adhering to the pulp; flesh deep yellow, juicy, firm and meaty, sweet, mild; fair to 

 good; stone variable in adhesion, three-quarters inch by three-eighths inch in size, long 

 and narrow, somewhat oval, flattened, obscurely pointed at the base and apex, smooth. 



WHITE BULLACE 



Prunus insititia 



I. Parkinson Par. Ter. 576. 1629. 2. Abercrombie Gard. Ass't 13. 1786. 3. Forsyth Fr. 

 Trees Am. 21. 1803. 4. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 344. 1831. S- Prince Pom. Man. 2:105. 1832. 

 6. Floy-Lindley Guide Orch. Gard. 300, 383. 1846. 7. Hogg Fruit Man. 385. 1866. 8. Downing 

 Fr. Trees Am. 952. 1869. 9. Thompson Gard. Ass't 4:160, 161 fig. 960. igoi. 10. Can. Exp. 

 Farms Rpt. 481. 1904. 



BuUace 5. Bullace 7. White Bulleis i. 



The origin of this old sort is iinknown. It was cultivated more than 

 three hundred years ago for Parkinson described it as common in his time. 

 He says of it " The White and the blacke Bulleis are common in most 

 Cottntries, being small roimd, lesser than Damsons, sharper in taste, and 

 later ripe." It is probably one of the first of the cultivated pltoms. White 

 Bullace is illustrated and described in full in The Plums of New York chiefly 

 as a means of comparison between the plums of three centuries ago and 

 those of the present. It has little value now for any purpose, though the 

 Europeans still grow it rather commonly and from seeds, cions or suckers 

 as convenience may dictate. 



Tree of medium size and vigor, upright-spreading, dense-topped, hardy, unproduc- 

 tive; branches ash-gray, nearly smooth, with numerous, small, inconspicuous lenticels; 

 branchlets thick, above medium in length, with short intemodes, greenish-red changing 

 to dark brownish-red, dull, with thick pubescence throughout the season, with few, 

 small lenticels; leaf-buds small, short, stubby, obtuse, strongly appressed. 



Leaves flattened, obovate, one and five-eighths inches wide, two and three-eighths 

 inches long, thick; upper surface dark green, rugose, with few hairs along the narrow, 

 grooved midrib; lower surface silvery green, pubescent; apex abruptly pointed or acute, 

 base acute, margin doubly serrate, eglandular ; petiole one-half inch long, green, pubescent, 

 glandless or with one or two small, globose, greenish-yellow glands variable in position. 



Blooming season medium to late, of average length; flowers appearing after the 

 leaves, three-quarters inch across, white, scattered on lateral spurs; usually borne 

 singly; pedicels one-quarter inch long, thick, densely covered with short hairs, green; 

 calyx-tube reddish-green, campantdate, glabrous; cal3rK-lobes acute, Hghtly pubescent 

 on both surfaces, glandular-serrate, reflexed; petals obovate, entire, with short, broad 

 claws; anthers yellow with red tinge; filaments five-sixteenths inch long; pistil 

 glabrous, nearly equal to the stamens in length. 



