Fruit mid-season; two inches by one and three-quarters inches in size, oval or obovate, compressed, halves equal; cavity shallow, narrow, abrupt, with a fleshy ring around the stem; suture very shallow; apex roundish or flattened; color light purplish-red changing to dark reddish-purple at maturity, covered with thick bloom; dots numerous, small, russet, inconspicuous, clustered about the apex; stem thick, seven-eighths inch long, pubescent, adhering strongly to the fruit; skin thin, somewhat tough, sour, separating readily; flesh dull yellow, often with a trace of red when fully mature, juicy, fibrous, somewhat tender, sweet, pleasant; good; stone semi-free, flattened, one and one-quarter inches by three-quarters inch in size, irregularly oval, necked at the base, blunt at the apex, strongly roughened and pitted, often with numerous, small, deep pits near the margins of both ventral and dorsal sutures; ventral suture strongly furrowed and winged; dorsal suture with a deep, narrow groove. BRYANSTON _Prunus domestica_ =1.= _Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat._ 144. 1831. =2.= _Jour. Hort._ N. S. =17=:286. 1869. =3.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 902. 1869. =4.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 24. 1871. =5.= Barry _Fr. Garden_ 411. 1883. =6.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 688. 1884. =7.= _Tenn. Sta. Bul._ =3=: No. 5, 88. 1890. =8.= _Guide Prat._ 155. 1895. =9.= Thompson _Gard. Ass’t_ =4=:157. 1901. =10.= Waugh _Plum Cult._ 98. 1901. =11.= _Mass. Sta. An. Rpt._ =17=:158. 1905. Bryanstone 11. Bryanston Gage 1, 2, 6, 9. Bryanston’s Gage 3, 5, 7. _Bryanston’s Gage_ 10. Bryanstone Gage 4. Reine-Claude Bryanston 8. The fruits of Bryanston fall not a little short, all things considered, of being as good as those of several other of the varieties in the Reine Claude group of which this plum is a member. For this reason Bryanston is not often rated by horticulturists as one of the best plums, but the large, vigorous trees growing on the Station grounds are so especially desirable for this variety, in a group which taken as a whole is noted for poor trees, that it is here described among the leading plums. The fruit is larger than that of Reine Claude but is less attractive in color and shape and the quality is not as high. It is later than the variety with which it has just been compared and the crop is not borne as regularly. While this plum can hardly be recommended for extensive orchard plantings, it yet has too many merits to be forgotten. This variety is said to be the result of crossing Reine Claude and Golden Drop at Bryanston Park, Blandford, England. It was first noted in the London Horticultural Society fruit catalog in 1831 but no information in regard to the date of its origin seems to have been published. In 1871 the American Pomological Society added it to its fruit catalog list but dropped it in 1897.