Season of bloom medium, short; flowers appearing after the leaves, one inch across, white, borne in clusters on lateral spurs, singly or in pairs; pedicels five-eighths inch long, lightly pubescent, greenish; calyx-tube green, narrowly campanulate, pubescent; calyx-lobes obtuse, sparingly pubescent on both surfaces, glandular-serrate, reflexed; petals oval, dentate, tapering to short, broad claws; anthers yellowish; filaments five-sixteenths inch long; pistil glabrous, equal to the stamens in length. Fruit very late, season of average length; two inches by one and one-half inches in size, oval, tapering at the base to a short neck, slightly compressed, halves equal; cavity very shallow and narrow, abrupt; suture shallow and wide; apex depressed; color golden-yellow, occasionally with a faint bronze blush, showing greenish streaks and splashes before full maturity, overspread with thin bloom; dots numerous, small, russet, conspicuous; stem three-quarters inch long, thinly pubescent, adhering well to the fruit; skin tough, rather adherent; flesh light golden-yellow, juicy, intermediate in firmness and tenderness, rather sweet, mild, pleasant flavor; good to very good; stone free, one and three-eighths inches by three-quarters inch in size, oval or ovate, slightly flattened, irregularly ridged and roughened, acute at the base and apex; ventral suture wide, often conspicuously winged; dorsal suture widely and deeply grooved. GOLIATH _Prunus domestica_ =1.= Prince _Treat. Hort._ 26. 1828. =2.= _Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat._ 147, 153. 1831. =3.= Kenrick _Am. Orch._ 260. 1832. =4.= _Mag. Hort._ =9=:164. 1843. =5.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 300. 1845. =6.= Floy-Lindley _Guide Orch. Gard._ 287, 383. 1846. =7.= Thomas _Am. Fruit Cult._ 343. 1849. =8.= McIntosh _Bk. Gard._ =2=:531. 1855. =9.= Hooper _W. Fr. Book_ 245. 1857. =10.= _Cultivator_ =8=:25 fig. 1860. =11.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 86. 1862. =12.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 363. 1866. =13.= Mas _Pom. Gen._ =2=:15, fig. 8. 1873. =14.= Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 432. 1889. =15.= Waugh _Plum Cult._ 105 fig. 1901. _Caledonian_ 1, 2, of some 5 & 8, 11, 12, 13, 14. Emperor 9. Goliath 1, 3. _Goliath_ 9, 13. _Nectarine_ 1, of some 2 & 8, 11 & 14 incor. _Pfirschenpflaume_ 14. Prune-Pêche? 14. _Saint Cloud_ 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 13, 14. Steer’s Emperor 2. _Steers’ Emperor_ 4, 5, 8, 12, 13, 14. _Wahre Caledonian_ 13, 14. _Wilmot’s Late Orleans_ 2, 5, 8, 12, 13, 14.