5l6 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



round, bright red; flesh orange-yellow, sweet and rich; good; stone roundish, slightly 

 margined, nearly free; mid-season; mentioned in the catalog of the American Pomo- 

 logical Society in i8gg. 



Piram. Angustifolia varians. i. Cornell Sta. Bui. 38:80. 1892. 2. Tex. Sta. Bui. 

 32:490, 491. 1894. 3. Waugh Plum Cult. 197. 1901. 



A seedling from Goliad County, Texas, originated by G. Onderdonk; named after 

 Piram Hall about 1875. Tree hardy, productive; fruit medium to large, roundish; 

 suture indistinct; light yellow; dots white; bloom thin; skin thin and tender; flesh 

 yellow, soft, sweet; fair to good; clingstone; mid-season. 



Pissardi. Cerasifera. i. Rev. Hort. 191. 1881. 2. Card. Mon. 25:367. 1883. z. Rural 

 N. Y. 44:479. 1885. 4. Card, and For. 1:178. 1888. 5. Garden 55:314. 1899. 

 6. Bailey Cyc. Hort. 1447. 1901. 



Prunus Cerasifera Atropurpurea 5. Prunus Pissardi 5. Prunus Pissardii 3. 

 Purple-leaved Plum 3. The Purple Myrobalan 5. Prunus Pissardi i, 2, 4. 



See Prunus cerasifera, p. 000. Tree large; shoots purpUsh; foliage while un- 

 folding tinged with red, later becoming dark purple; fruit medium in size; skin purplish, 

 showing color in unripe stage, thin, tough.; suture obscure; flesh firm, juicy, moderately 

 acid, inferior in quality; clingstone. 

 Plantz. Domestica. i. Cal. State Bd. Hort. Rpt. 129, 130 fig. 1891. 



Plantz's Seedling i. 



A chance seedling found by W. A. Plantz of New Castle, California, about 1883. 

 Tree thrifty, productive; fruit large, oval, tapering towards the stem, reddish-purple; 

 flesh yellow sugary, rich, juicy and sweet ; ripens in California about three weeks before 

 the Hungarian Prune. 



Plunk. Americana, i. PFw. 5ia. Sm/. 63:44. 1897. 2. Kerr Cai. 9. 1897. 3. Waugh 

 Plum Cult. 160. I go I. Large Red Sweet 3. Large Red Sweet i, 2. 



Introduced by Charles LuedlofE, Cologne, Minnesota. Tree a rapid grower with 

 good foliage; fruit large, round, dark red or purplish-red; flesh reddish, not juicy, very 

 sweet; good; clingstone; early. 

 Pomaria. Domestica. i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 189. 1867. 



A seedling of the Reine Claude from South Carolina, about 1867. Tree 

 productive; fruit medium in size, blue; bloom heavy; superior to its parent in 

 flavor. 

 Pomona. Americana X Hortulana mineri? i. S. Dak. Sta. Bui. 93:31. 1904. 



Originated by E. D. Cowles, Vermilion, South Dakota; under test at the South 

 Dakota Experiment Station. Said to be "a natural cross of Forest Garden and 

 Miner." 



Pond Purple. Domestica. i. Kenrick Am. Orch. 209. 1835. 2. Downing Fr. Trees 

 Am. 309. 1845. 3. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 344 fig. 368. 1867. 



Pond's Purple 2. Pond's Seedling 2, 3. 



Grown in the garden of Henry Hill, Boston; introduced by Samuel Pond of Cam- 

 bridge, Massachusetts. As it resembles the well-known Pond, it has been confused 

 with that variety. Young branches downy; fruit of medium size, roundish; stem 



