Fruit late, season long; one and one-eighth inches by seven-eighths inch in size, distinctly oval, necked, not compressed, halves equal; cavity small, shallow, narrow, flaring; suture lacking; apex roundish, with stigma usually adhering; color purplish-black, covered with thick bloom; dots numerous, small, brown, inconspicuous; stem one-half inch long, pubescent, adhering to the fruit; skin of medium thickness and toughness, slightly astringent, adhering somewhat; flesh greenish-yellow, juicy and fibrous, firm, sour or agreeably tart late in the season; stone clinging, three-quarters inch by one-half inch in size, irregularly oval or ovate, slightly necked at the base, acute at the apex, with pitted surfaces; ventral suture swollen, blunt; dorsal suture acute or partially furrowed. BLACKMAN _Prunus hortulana_ × _Prunus persica_ =1.= _Gara. Mon._ =24=:82. 1882. =2.= Ibid, =29=:45, 302. 1887. =3.= _Cornell Sta. Bul._ =38=:77. 1892. Blackman is supposed to be a hybrid between the Wild Goose plum and a peach. According to Bailey, a Mrs. Charity Clark secured plum pits from an orchard of Wild Goose and Washington plums in Rutherford County, Tennessee, about 1865 and gave them to Dr. Blackman of Nashville of that State. One of the seedlings appeared promising and was disseminated by a local nurseryman under the name Blackman. A rival nurseryman in attempting to procure cions of this variety inadvertently cut them from an adjacent tree, a barren seedling from the same lot of seed. Unfortunately the spurious Blackman received a wide distribution while the true variety remained practically unknown. Afterwards in order to avoid confusion the original Blackman was rechristened Charity Clark under which name it is now known. The tree of the second Blackman is strong and vigorous but rarely produces its plum-like fruit. The foliage is about midway in character between the plum and peach; the fruit-buds are formed abundantly but seldom open. From a horticultural standpoint, the variety is of course worthless but the hybrid, one of the first of its kind, is interesting and worth recording. BLEEKER _Prunus domestica_ =1.= Prince _Pom. Man._ 25. 1828. =2.= Kenrick _Am. Orch._ 255. 1832. =3.= Manning _Book of Fruits_ 104. 1838. =4.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 273. 1845. =5.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 54. 1852. =6.= Thompson _Gard. Ass’t_ 515. 1859. =7.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 899. 1869. =8.= Mas _Le Verger_ =6=:21. 1866-1873. =9.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 686. 1884. =10.= Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 423. 1889. =11.= _Guide Prat._ 158, 364. 1895. 12. Waugh _Plum Cult._ 96. 1901.