Blooming season medium to late, long; flowers appearing after the leaves, one and one-sixteenth inches across, the buds yellow-tipped changing to white when expanded, with a strong, disagreeable odor; borne in dense clusters on lateral buds and spurs, in threes; pedicels eleven-sixteenths inch in length, very slender, glabrous, greenish; calyx-tube green, obconic, glabrous; calyx-lobes below medium in width, acute, finely pubescent on the inner surface only, somewhat reflexed, glandular-serrate, the glands numerous and dark colored; petals oval, narrow, long, crenate, tapering beneath to long, narrow claws; anthers pale yellow, with a faint reddish tinge; filaments seven-sixteenths inch in length; pistil slender, glabrous, shorter than the stamens. Fruit mid-season, ripening period short; about one and one-eighth inches in diameter, rather large for its class, roundish-ovate, not compressed, halves equal; cavity shallow, narrow, flaring; suture very shallow and obscure; apex roundish or slightly conical; color garnet-red, with thin bloom; dots numerous, variable in size, grayish-yellow, conspicuous, clustered around the apex; stem slender, about three-eighths inch in length, glabrous, parting readily from the fruit; skin thin, slightly astringent, adhering but little; flesh golden-yellow, juicy, coarse, fibrous, tender and somewhat melting, very sweet next the skin but tart toward the center, aromatic; good; stone clinging, three-quarters inch by one-half inch in size, oval, somewhat oblique, turgid, roughish; ventral suture narrow, strongly winged; dorsal suture acute, unfurrowed. DRAP D’OR [Illustration: DRAP D’OR] _Prunus insititia_ =1.= Quintinye _Com. Gard._ =2=:69. 1699. =2.= Langley _Pomona_ 94, 97, Pl. 24 fig. 5. 1729. =3.= Duhamel _Trait. Arb. Fr._ =2=:96. 1768. =4.= Knoop _Fructologie_ 57. 1771. =5.= Coxe _Cult. Fr. Trees_ 233 fig. 2. 1817. =6.= _Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat._ 146. 1831. =7.= Prince _Pom. Man._ =2=:75. 1832. 8. Kenrick _Am. Orch._ 261. 1832. 9. _Mag. Hort._ =9=:163. 1843. 10. Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 274. 1845. =11.= Poiteau _Pom. Franc._ =1=:1846. =12.= Floy-Lindley _Guide Orch. Gard._ 297, 383. 1846. =13.= Thompson _Gard. Ass’t_ 516. 1859. =14.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 359, 371, 387. 1866. 15. _Pom. France_ =7=: No. 12. 1871. =16.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 36. 1875. =17.= _Cat. Cong. Pom. France_ 350. 1887. =18.= Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 428. 1889. =19.= _Guide Prat._ 153, 359. 1895. =20.= _Soc. Nat. Hort. France Pom._ 538 fig. 1904. =21.= Baltet _Cult. Fr._ 489, 503. 1908.