NATIVE AMERICAN SPECIES OF PRUNUS. 35 
All of the varieties named, with the exception of the last one, are of 
the ‘‘Wayland group” and the name hortulana must in consequence 
be retained in its original application. Wild goose belongs to a 
distinct species, very different in habit and in some other characters 
from any of the other varieties named in the original description. 
The species varies greatly in the size and quality of its fruit, and when 
it receives the attention it deserves by those engaged in the improve- 
ment of American fruits it will undoubtedly occupy a more prominent 
place in American pomology than at present. In its most perfect 
development it is probably the most symmetrical in form of any of 
the native species. Its vigor, nonsuckering habit, and abundant 
LEGENO- 
The subspecies are (ncluded with the species. 
FRUNUS HORTULANA Seca ee 
”? REVERCHON// 
RIVULAFRIS 
MUNSONIANA = —m om 
ORTHOSEPALA 
ANGUSTIFOLIA 
Fig. 2.—Outline map of the United States, showing the distribution of native American species of 
Prunus: Hortulana, reverchonii, rivularis, munsoniana, orthosepala, and angustifolia. 
fruiting qualities commend it as a stock where sufficiently hardy, as 
well as for a fruit-producing tree. The Crimson Beauty, Cumber- 
land, Garfield, Golden Beauty, Kanawha, Leptune, Moreman, Reed; 
and Wayland varieties belong to this species. Among these varieties 
Golden Beauty is supposed to have been found wild far beyond the 
natural range of the species in the Southwest. It was introduced in 
1874 by Gilbert Onderdonk, of Nursery, Tex. Mr. Onderdonk writes 
the following under date of February 1, 1911: 
The German whose name I have lost ran off from Gonzales County to the then 
Indian frontier in the region of Fort Belknap. He did so to avoid conscription into 
the Confederate Army. I can have no idea that he went up into Oklahoma. There 
was then exemption from conscription in the Indian frontier counties. When the 
war was over he returned to Gonzales County, bringing with him cuttings of a plum 
that he called ‘‘Late Yellow Chickasaw,’’ and said that he found it wild not far from 
_ Fort Belknap. That is all we know about its origin. 
