The plums of New York

by U. P. Hedrick

1. Koch, K. Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. App. 1854. 2. Schneider Handb. Laubh. 1:632. 1906.

Plant shrub-like, slender, upright, scarcely thorny, new wood more or less olive-brown. Buds short, ovate; leaves roundish or cuneiform, base oblong-ovate, point drawn out, main nerves over six on both sides, the serrations coarse and uniform in size, always glabrous. Flowers mostly in twos; borne on long, slender peduncles; calyx usually glabrous; petals white, odor slight; stamens thirty or more. Fruit small, roundish-oblong, red; stone ovoid, pointed at one end, somewhat turgid.

Prunus monticola is described by the above authors as a shrub-like plum from Asia Minor and Armenia having, so far as can be learned from European texts, little or no horticultural value. The herbarium specimens seen by the writer indicate that this species is closely related to Prunus cerasifera. The description of the species is abbreviated from Schneider.

8. PRUNUS TRIFLORA Roxburgh

PRUNUS TRIFLORA

1. Roxburgh Hort. Bengal 38. 1814. 2. Ibid. Fl. Indica 2:501. 1824. 3. Schneider Handb. Laubh. 1:627. 1892. 4. Bailey Cornell Sta. Bul. 62. 1894. 5. Waugh Plum Cult. 42. 1901.

P. domestica. 6. Maximowicz Mel. Biol. 11:678. 1883.

P. hattan Tamari. 7. Bailey An. Hort. 30. 1889.

P. communis. 8. Forbes and Hemsley Jour. Linn. Soc. 23:219. 1886-88.