Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, productive; trunk stocky, rough; branches rough, with numerous, large, raised lenticels; branchlets brash; leaves flattened, two and one-half inches wide, five inches long, obovate or oval; margin serrate; petiole thick, tinged red, pubescent, with from two to five large, globose glands. Fruit mid-season; about one and one-half inches in diameter, roundish-oval; cavity shallow, narrow, often lipped; color yellow streaked and mottled with green, overspread with thin bloom; skin thin, tender, rather sour; flesh yellow, tender, sweet, aromatic; of good quality; stone free, one inch by five-eighths inch in size, oval, with pitted surfaces; ventral suture blunt; dorsal suture wide, deep. EXCELSIOR _Prunus triflora_ × _Prunus munsoniana_ =1.= _Glen St. Mary Cat._ 1891-2. =2.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat_. 26. 1897. =3.= _Vt. Sta. Bul._ =67=:11. 1898. =4.= _Ga. Sta. Bul._ =68=:9, 36. 1905. Excelsior has not fruited on the Station grounds and is placed in the list of leading varieties because of the prominence given it in the above references. The variety was originated by G. L. Tabor, Glen Saint Mary, Florida, in 1887, from seed of Kelsey supposed to have been pollinated by Wild Goose, although some authorities believe De Caradeuc to have been the male parent. It seems to be a promising variety and was mentioned in the last three catalogs of the American Pomological Society. Tree vigorous, vasiform; branches slender; leaves of medium size, narrow; margin finely crenulate, glandular; petiole short, with from one to three small glands; flowers small, scattered; fruit early; of medium size, roundish, dark red with heavy bloom; skin tough; flesh firm, yellowish with red tinge towards the center; quality good; stone of medium size, compressed, clinging. FIELD [Illustration: FIELD] _Prunus domestica_ =1.= _Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt._ 288. 1889. =2.= _Am. Gard._ =14=:50, 395. 1893. =3.= _Rural N. Y_. =55=:622. 1896. =4.= _Cornell Sta. Bul._ =131=:184. 1897. =5.= _Mich. Sta. Bul._ =169=:244. 1899. =9.= _Ibid._ =187=:77, 78. 1901. =7.= Waugh _Plum Cult._ 101, 104 fig. 1901. =8.= _Ohio Sta. Bul._ =162=:239, 240 fig., 254, 255. 1905. _Early Bradshaw_ 2.