. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. WAYLAND WICKSON 219 color; abundant in juice, yet firm and meaty- enough in flesh to keep and ship well; and very good in flavor. The trees are large, hardy, vigorous, and healthy; remarkable for their broad, glossy, abundant leaves; and bear bountiful crops annually at a favorable period of maturity. The variety, however, is not without defects; the fruits are subject to brown-rot; the quality varies greatly in differ- ent locations and years; the trees are slow in. 210. Washington. (XD coming in bearing; and the crops are small for some yea
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. WAYLAND WICKSON 219 color; abundant in juice, yet firm and meaty- enough in flesh to keep and ship well; and very good in flavor. The trees are large, hardy, vigorous, and healthy; remarkable for their broad, glossy, abundant leaves; and bear bountiful crops annually at a favorable period of maturity. The variety, however, is not without defects; the fruits are subject to brown-rot; the quality varies greatly in differ- ent locations and years; the trees are slow in. 210. Washington. (XD coming in bearing; and the crops are small for some years after fruiting begins. While this variety is almost always worth planting in a home collection, the location for it as a commercial fruit needs to be chosen with care. About the year 1790, the pits of twenty-five quarts of Green Gage plum were planted by the Princes at Flushing, Long Island. From one of these Washington came. Tree large, vigorous, round and open-topped, hardy, very productive. Leaves Hatteued, oval, 2% inclies wide, 4% inches long, leathery, velvety ; apex acute ; base abrupt ; margin serrate, eglandular; petiole % inch long, green, pubescent, glandless or with 1 or 2 smallish, globose, greenish-yellow glands. Flowers appearing after the leaves, 1 ^^^ inches across, white, with yellow near the apex. Fruit midseason ; 1% by 1% inches in size, round-oval, compressed, halves equal ; cavity shallow, narrow, flaring; suture shallow ; apex roundish; color greenish-yellow, with green stripes and splashes, oc- casionally with a faint blush on the sunny side, with thin bloom; dots numerous, white, inconspicuous; stem Vz inch long, with thick pubescence, adhering strongly to the fruit; skin thin, sour, separating readily; flesh greenish-yellow, juicy, firm, tender, sweet, mild, pleasant flavor; good to very good; stone free, oval, turgid, roughened, somewhat blunt at the base and apex. WAYLAND. P. hortulana. Wayland is of little interest to plum-growers who grow the D
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