Blooming season late and long; flowers appearing after the
leaves, one and one-eighth inches across, the buds cream-tipped
changing to white on expanding; borne on lateral buds and
spurs, usually singly; pedicels about seven-sixteenths
inch long, thick, pubescent, green; calyx-tube greenish,
campanulate, glabrous except towards the base; calyx-lobes
above medium in width, obtuse, slightly pubescent on both
surfaces, glandular-serrate, erect; petals broadly ovate,
crenate, with short, broad claws; anthers yellowish; filaments
five-sixteenths inch long; pistil glabrous, equal to the
stamens in length.
Fruit late, season of medium length; one and seven-eighths
inches by one and three-quarters inches in size, roundish-oval,
slightly compressed, halves nearly equal; cavity shallow,
flaring; suture shallow, rather wide, prominent; apex roundish
or depressed; color light purplish-red over a greenish-yellow
ground, overspread with thin bloom; dots numerous, small,
russet, inconspicuous; stem one-half inch long, thickly
pubescent, adhering strongly to the fruit, with fleshy ring
about the base; skin of average thickness and toughness, sour,
separating from the pulp; flesh pale yellow, juicy, coarse,
firm, sweet at the skin, but tart at the center, pleasant,
aromatic; good; stone clinging, one and three-sixteenths inches
by three-quarters inch in size, oval, turgid, blunt at the
apex, with rough and pitted surfaces; ventral suture winged,
with few but prominent ridges; dorsal suture widely and deeply
grooved.
BERCKMANS
_Prunus triflora_
=1.= _Ga. Hort. Soc. Rpt._ 53, 99. 1889. =2.= _Cornell Sta.
Bul._ =62=:20. 1894. =3.= _Ga. Hort. Soc. Rpt._ 95. 1895.
=4.= _Cornell Sta. Bul._ =106=:43, 44. 1896. =5.= _Rural N.
Y._ =56=:614. 1897. =6.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._ 26. 1897. =7.=
_Cornell Sta. Bul._ =175=:138, 143. 1899. =8.= _Rural N. Y._
=62=:582. 1903. =9.= _Ga. Sta. Bul._ =68=:9, 28. 1905.
_Botan_ of some 2, 4. Botan White 6. Sweet Botan 1. _Sweet
Botan_ 2, 3, 4. _True Sweet Botan_ 2, 4, 9. White-fleshed Botan
1. _White-fleshed Botan_ 2, 4, 8, 9.
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