. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. OGON PEACH 211 glands. Flowers i^ir inch across, white. Fruit mid- season, ripening period long; 1% 'inches in diameter, round-cordate, halves une^iual ; cavity deep, wide, flar- ing, with streaks radiating from the cavity-; suture a line; apex round to pointed ; color dark red over a yellow-green ground, with bloom of medium thickness; dots numerous, large, russet, conspicuous, clustered about the apex; stem slender, % inch long, glabrous; skin thin, tough, sour, separating readily; flesh light yellow tinged with red, very juicy, fibrous, s^
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. OGON PEACH 211 glands. Flowers i^ir inch across, white. Fruit mid- season, ripening period long; 1% 'inches in diameter, round-cordate, halves une^iual ; cavity deep, wide, flar- ing, with streaks radiating from the cavity-; suture a line; apex round to pointed ; color dark red over a yellow-green ground, with bloom of medium thickness; dots numerous, large, russet, conspicuous, clustered about the apex; stem slender, % inch long, glabrous; skin thin, tough, sour, separating readily; flesh light yellow tinged with red, very juicy, fibrous, s^veet, mild ; good ; stone clinging, round-oval, blunt but with a small tip, somewhat rough. OGON. P. salicina. Shiro Smomo. Yellow Nagate. Ogon is one of the few varieties of P. salicina bearing yellow fniits. It is further distinguished by being the only freestone sort of its species under cultivation in America, and by fruits having a flavor quite distinct, resembling that of the apricot. The plums are not of high quality, crack badly on the tree, and are unusually susceptible to the at- tacks of curculio. The trees are small and unproductive. These faults preclude the plant- ing of Ogon in commercial plantations. The variety is distinct and interesting not only in its fruits, but in its flowers, which bear few stamens, many of which are abortive and show all degrees between perfect stamens and perfect petals. Ogon was imported from Japan about 1885. Tree medium, vigorous, vasiform, dense-topped, unpro- ductive. Leaves few, oblanceolate, peach-lilse, IVs inches wide, 4 inch long, thin; margin finely crenate, with small, dark amber glands; petiole Vi inch long, glandless or with 1-4 globose, greenish glands. Flowers if inch across. Fruit early; 1V^ inches by 1 % inches in size, round-oblate, oblique, halves equal; cavity narrow, regular, flaring ; suture variable in depth, prominent; apex roundish or slightly flattened; color lemon-j-ellow, with thin bloom ; dots numerous, sma
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