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and was disseminated by him and by Professor Budd. In 1897 it was 

 added to the fruit catalog Hst of the American Pomological Society. 



Tree small, spreading and straggling, fiat-topped, very hardy, productive, healthy; 

 branches rough and shaggy, zigzag, thorny, dark ash-gray, with numerous, large lenticels; 

 branchlets willowy, slender, long, with long internodes, greenish-red changing to reddish- 

 brown, glossy, glabrous, with conspicuous, raised lenticels of average size and number; 

 leaf-buds small, pointed, strongly appressed. 



Leaves falling early, folded upward, oval, one and five-eighths inches wide, three 

 and one-quarter inches long, thin; upper surface green, smooth, glabrous, grooved 

 on the midrib and larger veins; lower surface silvery-green, lightly pubescent; apex 

 acuminate, base abrupt, margin coarsely and doubly serrate, the serrations sharp- pointed, 

 not glandular; petiole one-half inch long, tinged red, pubescent, glandless or with from 

 one to five globose, yellowish-green glands on the stalk. 



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

 leaves, showy on account of the many blossoms and peculiar appearance caused by 

 the numerous long stamens, whitish, with disagreeable odor; borne in dense clusters 

 on lateral buds and spurs, one to four flowers in each cluster; pedicels one-half inch 

 long, slender, glabrous, green, faintly tinged with red; caly:x-tube red, obconic, glabrous; 

 calyx-lobes narrow, acute, lightly pubescent on the inner surface, serrate and with 

 numerous marginal hairs, erect; petals small, narrow-ovate, crenate, with narrow, 

 long claws; stamens very numerous; anthers yellowish; filaments three-eighths inch 

 long; pistil slender, glabrous, shorter than the stamens, often defective. 



Fruit mid-season, ripening period short; one and one-quarter inches in diameter, 

 not symmetrical in shape, oblong-obovate to nearly ovate, oblique, somewhat truncate, 

 halves equal; cavity shallow, narrow, flaring; suture a line; apex slightly flattened; 

 color dark carmine over a yellow ground which largely disappears as maturity advances, 

 with thin bloom; dots numerous, very small, light russet, inconspicuous; stem slender, 

 one-half inch long, glabrous, dehiscent; skin thin, tender, separating readily; flesh 

 dark golden-yellow, juicy, tender and melting, sweet, with the Americana flavor less 

 marked than in other varieties; of fair quality; stone nearly free, seven-eighths inch by 

 five-eighths inch in size, broadly oval, flattened, blunt at the base, somewhat pointed 

 at the apex, with pitted, dark colored surfaces; ventral suture blunt or slightly winged, 

 shallowly ridged; dorsal suture acute, with shallow, narrow, distinct groove. 



YELLOW EGG 



Prunus domestica 



1. Rea Flora 209. 1676. 2. Ray Hist. Plant. 2:1528, 1529. 1688. 3. Langley Pomona 95, 

 PI. XXV fig. VI. 1729. 4. Miller Card. Dia. 3. 1754. 5. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:107, PI- XX 

 fig. 10. 1768. 6. Knoop Fruaologie 2:59. i77i- 7- Kraft Pom. Aust. 2:29, Tab. 175 fig. i; 38, 

 Tab. 188 fig. I. 1796. 8. Forsyth Treat. Fr. Trees 20, 21. 1803. 9. Coxe CuU. Fr. Trees 233, 

 fig. 8. 1817. 10. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 149. 1831. 11. Prince Pom. Man. 2:57, 58. 1832. la. 

 Kenrick jlm. Orch. 258, 269. 1832. 13. Floy-Lindley Guide Orch. Gard. 299, 301. 1846. 14. Poi- 



