Blooming season intermediate in time and length; flowers appearing after the leaves, one and one-eighth inches across, in the bud creamy-yellow changing to white when expanded; borne in scattering clusters on lateral buds and spurs, singly or in pairs; pedicels nine-sixteenths inch long, glabrous, green; calyx-tube greenish, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes obtuse, pubescent on both surfaces, glandular-serrate and with marginal hairs, slightly reflexed; petals obovate or oval, crenate, with short, broad claws; anthers yellowish, with a trace of pink; filaments five-sixteenths inch long; pistil glabrous, equal to the stamens in length. Fruit late, season very short; one and three-quarters inches by one and three-eighths inches in size, long-oval, slightly compressed and necked; cavity shallow, narrow, compressed, abrupt; suture shallow and rather broad, prominent; apex elongated; color reddish-purple changing to dark blue at full maturity, overspread with thick bloom; dots numerous, small, brownish-russet, inconspicuous; stem often inserted at one side of the base, five-eighths inch long, glabrous, adhering well to the fruit; skin tough, adhering; flesh deep golden-yellow often a little reddish, juicy, coarse, firm, but somewhat tender, sweet, pleasant and sprightly; good; stone free, the cavity larger than the pit, one and one-eighth inches by five-eighths inch in size, long-oval, necked, abruptly tipped at the apex, often reddish, rough; ventral suture broad, blunt, slightly furrowed; dorsal suture with an indistinct shallow groove. ARCTIC [Illustration: ARCTIC] _Prunus domestica_ =1.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 3d App. 182. 1881. =2.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 38. 1881. =3.= _Country Gent._ =49=:106. 1884. =4.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._ 96. 1887. =5.= _Mich. Pom. Soc. Rpt._ 289, 290. 1889. =6.= _Gard. & For._ =6=:526. 1892. =7.= _Can. Hort._ =16=:301. 1893. =8.= _Mich. Sta. Bul._ =103=:35. 1894. =9.= _Ont. Fr. Exp. Sta. Rpt._ 120. 1896. =10.= _Cornell Sta. Bul._ =131=:189. 1897. =11.= _Ohio Sta. Bul._ =113=:160. 1899. =12.= _Mich. Sta. Bul._ =169=:241, 242. 1899. =13.= _Can. Exp. Farm Bul._ =43=:33. 1903. =14.= Budd-Hansen _Am. Hort. Man._ 304. 1903. =15.= _Ga. Sta. Bul._ =67=:278. 1904. =16.= _Ohio Sta. Bul._ =162=:256, 257. 1905. Moore Arctic 8, 15. Moore’s Arctic 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 16. _Moore’s Arctic_, 13, 14.