5IO THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



Opata was grown by N. E. Hansen of the South Dakota Experiment Station from 

 a cross between Golden and Prunus besseyi; introduced in a small way in 1908. Tree 

 productive; fruit of medium size, roundish; cavity wide; dark red; bloom rather 

 heavy; flesh green; said to be good; stone small; very early. 

 Orange. Domestica. i. Knoop Fructologie 2:^g. 1771. Prune de Orange i. 



Fruit of medium size, oval, yellow blushed with red; flesh soft and juicy; good; 

 freestone. 

 Orange Cherry. Species? i. Kerr Cat. 18. 1899. Orange's Cherry Plum i. 



Originated in Florida where it is grown as a substitute for the cherry. 

 Orel No. 21. Domestica. i. S. Dak. Sta. Bui. 93:30. 1905. 



Introduced from Russia by Professor J. L. Budd of Iowa about 1882. Unpro- 

 ductive and deficient in hardiness. 

 Orenge. Domestica. i, Parkinson Par. Ter. 576, 577 fig. 1629. 



Mentioned by Parkinson as "a yellowish plum, moist and somewhat sweetish." 

 Oriental. Triflora. i. Rural N. Y. 64:743. 1905. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 234. 1907. 



Perry's Seedling i. 



Introduced by F. L. Perry of Bridgeport, Connecticut, as a cross between Burbank 

 and Satsuma. Tree hardy, vigorous; fruit large; skin thin; flesh dark, sweet; good; 

 ripens two or three weeks earlier than Satsuma and hangs a month after ripening. 

 Orillia. Domestica. i. Can. Hort. 26:422. 1903. 



A seedling shown at the Orillia fruit exhibit in 1903; grown from a Lombard seed 

 by Frank Kean. Tree vigorous, bears regularly; fruit similar in size and appearance 

 to Quackenboss with a smaller stone and heavier bloom. 



Osage. Munsoniana. i. Kerr Cai. 1894. 2. Me. Sta. An. Rpt. 12:66. 1896. 3. Waugh 

 Plum Cult. 188. 1901. 4. Tex. Dept. Agr. Bui. 12:103. 1910. 



Osage 48 2. Wonder 4. 



Tree productive, tender; fruit medium in size, round to oval; cavity shallow; 

 stem slender; bright red with numerous light dots flesh yellow; quality fair; stone 

 medium, oval, flattened, clinging; mid-season. 

 Ottoman Seedling. Domestica. i. N. Y. Sta. Rpt. 9:347. 1900. 



Received by this Station for testing in 1890 from L. M. Macomber, North Ferris- 

 burgh, Vermont, as a seedling of Imperial Ottoman. Tree productive; fruit medium 

 to large, oval, suture slight or lacking; stem an inch long, slender, inserted with scarcely 

 a depression ; dull red or greenish-red ; bloom thin ; flesh yellowish-green, juicy, sweet ; 

 very good; stone medium, oval, small wing; early to mid-season. 

 Outremont. Domestica. i. Can. Exp. Farm Btd. 43:38. 1903. 



Under test at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. 

 Overall. Domestica. i. Hogg Fruit Man. 716. 1884. 



Fruit large, oval ; suture faint ; stem three-quarters of an inch long inserted without a 

 depression; dark purple; flesh coarse, pleasantly flavored; clingstone; mid-season. 

 Owatona. Americana, i. Wis. Sta. Bui. 63:52. 1897. 2. Wis. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 137. 

 1899. 3. S. Dak. Sta. Bui. 93:31. 1905. 



