Tree medium in size and vigor, round and dense-topped, hardy,
usually productive; branches short, stocky, dark ash-gray, with
large lenticels; branchlets short, with internodes of medium
length, greenish-red changing to dark brownish-red, dull,
thinly pubescent, heavily marked with scarf-skin and with few,
small, inconspicuous lenticels; leaf-buds small to medium,
short, conical, appressed.
Leaves folded backward, obovate or oval, two and one-quarter
inches wide, three and three-quarters inches long; upper
surface pubescent only along the midrib; lower surface pale
green, lightly pubescent on the midrib and larger veins; apex
abruptly pointed or acute, margin serrate or crenate, usually
with small, dark glands; petiole three-quarters inch long,
tinged red along one side, sparingly pubescent, glandless or
with from one to four greenish-brown glands usually on the
stalk.
Blooming season intermediate in time and length; flowers
appearing after the leaves, one and three-sixteenths inches
across, creamy in the buds, changing to white on opening,
borne in scattering clusters on short, lateral buds and spurs,
singly or in pairs; pedicels three-eighths inch long, thick,
glabrous, greenish; calyx-tube green, campanulate, glabrous or
lightly pubescent; calyx-lobes broad, obtuse, pubescent on both
surfaces, glandular-serrate, reflexed; petals oval, somewhat
erose, with short, broad claws; anthers yellowish; filaments
five-sixteenths inch long; pistil glabrous, longer than the
stamens.
Fruit mid-season, period of ripening short; two inches by
one and one-half inches in size, obovate, slightly necked,
compressed, halves unequal; cavity shallow, narrow, abrupt;
suture shallow; apex roundish or depressed; color light to dark
purplish-red, overspread with bloom of medium thickness; dots
numerous, smallish, russet, inconspicuous; stem seven-eighths
inch long, thinly pubescent, adhering well to the fruit; skin
of medium thickness and toughness, adhering but slightly to the
pulp; flesh light golden-yellow, variable in juiciness, coarse,
somewhat fibrous, firm, rather sweet, mild fair in quality;
stone semi-clinging or clinging, one and one-eighth inches by
five-eighths inch in size, long-oval, flattened, with rough
and pitted surfaces; ventral suture strongly furrowed; dorsal
suture with a shallow groove.
GLASS
_Prunus domestica_
=1.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 3rd App. 181. 1881. =2.= _Am. Pom.
Soc. Cat._ 39. 1899. =3.= _Mich. Sta. Bul._ =169=:245. 1899.
=4.= Waugh _Plum Cult._ 104. 1901. =5.= _Can. Exp. Farm Bul._
=43=:34. 1903. =6.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._ 57. 1907.
Glass Seedling 2. _Glass Seedling_ 4, 5, 6.
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