=1.= Hoffy _Orch. Com._ =2=:1842. =2.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 295. 1845. =3.= _N. Y. Sta. Rpt._ =15=:293. 1896. =4.= Bailey _Ev. Nat. Fruits_ 212. 1898. =5.= _Can. Exp. Farms Rpt._ 401. 1898. Golden Cherry Plum 2. Market Plum 1. Youngken Golden 3. _Youngken’s Golden Cherry_ 4. Yunkin Golden 5. This plum is one of the few cultivated representatives of _Prunus cerasifera_. It offers some attractions because of real merit and because it adds variety to the list of plums for fruit-growers. Some of its qualities are strongly marked and the variety might prove of value in plant-breeding. Golden Cherry originated with Samuel Reeves, Salem, New Jersey, as a seedling of Myrobalan, in the early part of the last century. Tree large, vigorous, spreading, dense-topped, unproductive; branches slender, sparingly thorny; branchlets twiggy; leaves oval, one inch wide, one and seven-eighths inches long; margin finely serrate, with few small glands; petiole reddish, eglandular; blooming season early, of medium length; flowers appearing before the leaves, well distributed on lateral buds and spurs. Fruit very early; one and one-quarter inches in diameter, greenish-yellow changing to pale yellow with a tinge of red, overspread with thin bloom; flesh pale yellow, very juicy, melting, sweet next to the skin but rather tart at the pit, aromatic; good; stone clinging, five-eighths inch by one-half inch in size, oval, with a nearly smooth surface. GOLDEN DROP [Illustration: GOLDEN DROP] _Prunus domestica_ =1.= _Pom. Mag._ =2=:57, Pl. 1829. =2.= _Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat._ 144. 1831. =3.= Kenrick _Am. Orch._ 256. 1832. =4.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 273. 1845. =5.= Floy-Lindley _Guide Orch. Gard._ 295, 383. 1846. =6.= Thomas _Am. Fruit Cult._ 332, fig. 258. 1849. =7.= _Mag. Hort._ =15=:486, 487 fig. 42. 1849. =8.= Hovey _Fr. Am._ =1=:81. 1851. =9.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 54. 1852. =10.= Elliott _Fr. Book_ 410. 1854. =11.= _Ann. Pom. Belge_ 43, Pl. 1855. =12.= Thompson _Gard. Ass’t_ 515. 1859. =13.= Mas _Le Verger_ =6=:29, fig. 15. 1866-73. =14.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 691, 729. 1884. =15.= Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 425. 1889. =16.= _Guide Prat._ 155, 357. 1895. =17.= _Oregon Sta. Bul._ =45=:26 fig. 1897. =18.= _Colo. Sta. Bul._ =50=:34. 1898. =19.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._ 211. 1899. =20.= _Ohio Sta. Bul._ =113=:158, Pl. XV. 1899. =21.= _Mich. Sta. Bul._ =169=:242, 244. 1899. =22.= Waugh _Plum Cult._ 104 fig. 1901. =23.= _Va. Sta. Bul._ =134=:42. 1902. =24.= _Ohio Sta. Bul._ =162=:242, 254, 255. 1905.