380 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



Willard is about the earliest of the Triflora plums that can be shipped 

 to the markets. When this is said all is said ; as the variety has little else 

 to recommend it, being very inferior in quality and having a reputation 

 of being subject to shot -hole fungus. S. D. WiUard, Geneva, New York, 

 procured cions of this variety from California about 1888 from an impor- 

 tation made by Burbank from Japan. According to Willard, the plum 

 was received under the name Botan and he labelled it No. 26 to avoid 

 confusion; in 1893, it was named Willard by W. F. Heikes of the Hunts- 

 ville Nurseries, Hvintsville, Alabama. The American Pomological Society 

 placed the variety on its frtiit catalog list in 1897. 



Tree medium to large, vigorous, vasiform, productive; leaves falling early, folded 

 upward, oblanceolate, one and three-eighths inches wide, three and three-quarters 

 inches long, thin, glabrous; margin finely and doubly serrate, with very small glands; 

 petiole three-quarters inch long, with from one to five reniform glands usually on the 

 stalk. 



Fruit early, of medium size, roundish or somewhat oblong, blunt at the apex, dark 

 red when well grown, covered with thick bloom; stem short, thick, adhering poorly to 

 the fruit; skin sour; flesh greenish-yellow, rather firm, sweet, low in flavor; poor in 

 quality; stone variable in adhesion, of medium size. 



WOLF 



Prunus americana mollis 



I. la. Hon. Soc. Rpt. 367. 1883. 2. Rural N. Y. 44:645. 1885. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 40. 

 1889. 4. Cornell Sta. Bui 38:45 fig. 2, 87. 1892. 5. Mich. Sta. Bui. 118:54. 1895. 6. Wis. 

 Sta. Bui. 63:24, 64. 1897. 7. Colo. Sta. Bui. 50:47. 1898. 8. Waugh Plum Cult. 167. 1901. 

 9. Ga. Sia. Bui. 67:284 fig. 1904. 10. 5. Dak. Sia. Bui. 93:42. 1905. 11. la. Sta. Bui. 114:148 

 fig. 1910. 



Wolf Free 4, 6. Wolf Freestone 11. 



Wolf has long maintained a high place among the standard Amer- 

 icana plums, with which it is usually classed though put in a sub-species, 

 and from which it differs chiefly in having much more pubescence on 

 foliage, floral organs and branchlets. It is noted for its great hardiness, 

 reliability in bearing, attractive and well-flavored fruits and in being one 

 of the few freestones of its kind. This plum is remarkably well adapted 

 for the northern part of the Mississippi Valley and there alone it is worth 

 planting extensively. In New York it might prove valuable in the coldest 

 parts of the State where the Domesticas and Insititias cannot be grown. 



This variety was raised from a pit of a wild plum planted on the farm 

 of D. B. Wolf, Wapellc County, Iowa, about 1852. Professor J. L. Budd 



