. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Wild Goose Plum 493 eastern Texas. Its maximum height is 8 meters, with a trunk diameter of 2 dm. The bark is thin, scarcely fissured, but broken into thick, persistent, dark brownish red scales; the twigs are nearly smooth or short-hairy, becoming entirely smooth, red or purple and shining, finally dull and dark. The leaves are rather thin, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 3 to 10 cm. long, sharp or somewhat taper-pointe
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Wild Goose Plum 493 eastern Texas. Its maximum height is 8 meters, with a trunk diameter of 2 dm. The bark is thin, scarcely fissured, but broken into thick, persistent, dark brownish red scales; the twigs are nearly smooth or short-hairy, becoming entirely smooth, red or purple and shining, finally dull and dark. The leaves are rather thin, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 3 to 10 cm. long, sharp or somewhat taper-pointed, more or less rounded at the base, margined by very small gland-tipped teeth, smooth and shining above, paler and dull beneath; the slender leaf-stalk is i to cm. long, bear- ing two glands near the base of the blade. The flowers appear in March and April be- fore the leaves, in nearly stemless, 2- to 4- flowered umbels, on slender, smooth pedicels 8 to 15 mm. long; the calyx-tube is bell- shaped, smooth, the lobes oblong, blunt- pointed, and fringed with glandular hairs; Fig. 431--Chickasaw Plum, petals clawed, white, obovate, rounded; filaments and pistil smooth. The fruit, which ripens in June or July, is oval to globose, about cm. in diameter, bright red, somewhat shining, with a slight bloom; flesh subacid and juicy; stone ovoid, swollen, somewhat ridged on one edge, conspicuously grooved at the other. The fruit of the Chickasaw plum is gathered from wild trees and sold in the markets of the southern States; the tree is also cultivated. Nurserymen cata- logue about a dozen named varieties of it. The wood is rather soft, weak, light brown; its specific gravity is about 9. WILD GOOSE PLUM—Pnmus hortulana Bailey Also called Garden wild plum, this grows in woods and thickets along streams, from Maryland to Kansas, Alabama and Texas. It is a small, low-branched tree, sometimes a shrub. Its maximum height is about 9 meters, with a trunk diameter of 3 dm. The o
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