Tree very large, vigorous, spreading, open-topped, productive; branches sparingly thorny; leaves broadly oblanceolate or oval, one and one-quarter inches wide, three inches long; margin finely serrate or sometimes crenate, with dark reddish-glands; petiole short, slender, with from two to five globose glands on the stalk; blooming season of medium length; flowers appearing after the leaves, three-quarters inch across; borne in dense clusters on lateral buds and spurs, in threes or fours; anthers so numerous as to give a yellowish color to the flower-clusters. Fruit mid-season, period of ripening long; one and three-quarters inches by one and three-eighths inches in size, nearly round, dark golden-yellow with bright red blush, covered with thin bloom; flesh golden-yellow, very juicy, melting, sweet next to the skin, but tart at the pit, aromatic; of fair quality; stone clinging, five-eighths inch by one-half inch in size, oval, turgid, with slightly pitted surfaces. KELSEY _Prunus triflora_ =1.= _Gard. Mon._ =24=:339. 1882. =2.= _U. S. D. A. Rpt._ 272. 1886. =3.= _Gard. Mon._ =29=:305, 335-367. 1887. =4.= _U. S. D. A. Rpt._ 635, 652. 1887. =5.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._ 95, 126. 1887. =6.= _Ga. Hort. Soc. Rpt._ 35. 1888. =7.= _Ibid._ 51, 99. 1889. =8.= _Rev. Hort._ 502, 542. 1890. =9.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._ 105, 106, 125. 1891. =10.= _Am. Gard._ =13=:700. 1892. =11.= _Cornell Sta. Bul._ =62=:3, 24. 1894. =12.= _Tex. Sta. Bul._ =32=:488 fig., 489. 1894. =13.= _Cornell Sta. Bul._ =106=:53. 1896. =14.= _Ala. Col. Sta. Bul._ =85=:447. 1897. =15.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 41. 1899. =16.= Waugh _Plum Cult._ 137. 1901. =17.= _N. C. Sta. Bul._ =184=:120. 1903. =18.= _Ga. Sta. Bul._ =68=:15, 31. 1905. _Botankin_ 7. Botankin 3. _Hattankio_ 7. Kelsey’s Japan 2, 3, 5. _Sinomo_ 7. _Togari_ 7. Kelsey is distinguished as the largest, the latest and the tenderest to cold of all Triflora plums in America. The variety is not much hardier than the fig and cannot be safely planted north of Washington and Baltimore. The tree is vigorous, well formed and productive, having for its worst fault susceptibility to shot-hole fungus. The plums are large, very attractive in color and the flesh is firm, the plums being well fitted for shipping, with a rich, pleasant, aromatic flavor making the fruit very good in quality. In the South both curculio and brown-rot attack the fruits rather badly. It is unfortunate that this plum cannot be grown in this latitude.