Leaves falling early, folded upward, oval, one and three-quarters inches wide, four inches long; upper surface dark green changing to greenish-yellow, glossy, with scattering hairs and a narrow, grooved midrib; lower surface finely pubescent; apex taper-pointed, base somewhat abrupt, margin very coarsely and deeply doubly serrate, petiole five-eighths inch long, of medium thickness, pubescent, tinged red, glandless or with one or two globose, brownish glands on the stalk. Blooming season medium to late and of average length; flowers appearing after the leaves, one and one-eighth inches across, white; borne in clusters on lateral buds and spurs, in twos and threes; pedicels eleven-sixteenths inch in length, below medium in thickness, covered with short, thick pubescence, greenish; calyx-tube green, campanulate, pubescent; calyx-lobes somewhat acute, eglandular, thickly pubescent on both surfaces, with a swollen ring at the base of the lobes, semi-reflexed; petals oblong or ovate, erose, tapering abruptly into long, narrow claws; anthers yellowish; filaments three-eighths inch in length; pistil glabrous, equal to or shorter than the stamens. Fruit mid-season, ripening period short; one and one-half inches in diameter, roundish, varying to oval or ovate, compressed, often strongly truncate at the base; cavity shallow or medium, abrupt; suture very shallow or a line; apex roundish or somewhat pointed; color yellowish-red becoming a light or dark crimson over an orange-yellow ground, overspread with thin bloom; dots very numerous, small, light russet, inconspicuous; stem rather slender, three-quarters inch long, sparingly pubescent; skin thick, tough, very astringent, clinging to the pulp; flesh golden-yellow, very juicy, fibrous, tender and melting, of medium sweetness, mild; fair to good; stone nearly free, seven-eighths inch in size, oval, turgid, blunt-pointed, smooth; ventral suture bluntly acute and with slight furrows; dorsal suture acute, not furrowed. DIAMOND [Illustration: DIAMOND] _Prunus domestica_ =1.= _Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat._ 146. 1831. =2.= Kenrick _Am. Orch._ 259. 1832. =3.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 298. 1845. =4.= Lee _Gen. Farmer_ =6=:141. 1845. 5. _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 222, 244. 1858. =6.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 696. 1884. =7.= _Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt._ 327. 1889. =8.= _Guide Prat._ 159, 355. 1895. =9.= _Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt._ 382. 1895. =10.= _Cornell Sta. Bul._ =131=:183, fig. 40 VI. 1897. =11.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 25. 1897. =12.= _Vt. Sta. An. Rpt._ =12=:214, 217. 1899. =13.= _Mich. Sta. Bul._ =169=:244. 1899. =14.= _W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt._ 92. 1899. =15.= _Garden_ =56=:168. 1899. =16.= _Can. Exp. Farm Bul._ =43=:33. 1903. =17.= _Can. Exp. Farms Rpt._ 423. 1903.