Fruit late, season short; one and five-eighths inches by one inch in size, distinctly oblong, somewhat necked, swollen on the suture side, compressed, halves unequal; cavity very shallow and narrow, abrupt; suture shallow; apex pointed; color dark reddish-purple, overspread with thick bloom; dots numerous, small, russet, inconspicuous; stem slender, one and one-eighth inches long, pubescent, adhering well to the fruit; skin thin, tough, slightly sour, separating readily; flesh yellowish-green, juicy, firm but tender, sweet, mild; good to very good; stone semi-free to free, one and one-eighth inches by one-half inch in size, irregular long-oval, flattened, necked at the base, acute at the apex, with thickly pitted surfaces; ventral suture wide, blunt; dorsal suture with a wide, deep groove. ICKWORTH [Illustration: ICKWORTH] _Prunus domestica_ =1.= _Gard. Chron._ =1=:734. 1841. =2.= _Ibid._ =2=:176. 1842. =3.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 302. 1845. =4.= Thomas _Am. Fruit Cult._ 345. 1849. =5.= Elliott _Fr. Book._ 420. 1854. =6.= Thompson _Gard. Ass’t_ 517. 1859. =7.= Mas _Le Verger_ =6=:57, Pl. 29. 1866-73. =8.= Barry _Fr. Garden_ 413. 1883. =9.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 706. 1884. =10.= Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 435. 1889. =11.= Wickson _Cal. Fruits_ 358. 1891. =12.= _Cornell Sta. Bul._ =131=:187. 1897. =13.= Waugh _Plum Cult._ 110. 1901. Ickworth Imperatrice 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. _Ickworth Imperatrice_ 13. _Imperatrice Ickworth_ 10. Imperatrice Jckworth 7. _Jckworth Imperatrice_ 7. _Knight’s No. 6._ 3, 5, 9, 10. Ickworth is hardly known in America though in England it is a favorite late plum noted as being one of the best of all plums for late keeping. In New York the plums of this variety are too small for the market and are not high enough in quality for a home plum; moreover, the plums do not always ripen in this latitude. In California Ickworth has been found to make a very good prune and to ship very well in the green state but here again small size debars it from great commercial value. The habits of growth of Ickworth are very good and so markedly so that when considered with the late keeping qualities of the fruit, one wishes that this variety might be bred with a larger plum of better quality with the hope of an offspring from the union of especial value as a late plum. Knight, the noted English pomologist, raised this plum from the Imperatrice fertilized by Golden Drop and named it after Ickworth Park, near Bury St. Edmunds. Knight aimed in raising this and other plums to produce a fruit containing sufficient sugar to keep well and not shrivel. In Ickworth he succeeded to a high degree.