. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 192 ARCTIC BLACK BULLACE I Tree of medium size, upright-spreading, hardy, very productive. Leaves oval, IVi inches wide, 3>/i inches long, thick, stiff; apex and base acute; margin doubly serrate, with small, dark glands; petiole % inch long, pubescent along one side, tinged with red, usually with 2 large, globose, greenish-yellow glands. Flowers 1% inches across. Fruit late; 1% by 1V4 inches, long-oval, compressed, necked ; ca\ity shallow, narrow, compressed, abrupt ; suture shallow, broad, prominent; apex elong- ated ; color dark blue; b
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 192 ARCTIC BLACK BULLACE I Tree of medium size, upright-spreading, hardy, very productive. Leaves oval, IVi inches wide, 3>/i inches long, thick, stiff; apex and base acute; margin doubly serrate, with small, dark glands; petiole % inch long, pubescent along one side, tinged with red, usually with 2 large, globose, greenish-yellow glands. Flowers 1% inches across. Fruit late; 1% by 1V4 inches, long-oval, compressed, necked ; ca\ity shallow, narrow, compressed, abrupt ; suture shallow, broad, prominent; apex elong- ated ; color dark blue; bloom heavy ; dots numerous, small, brownish-russet, inconspicuous; stem often in- serted at one side of the base, % inch long, glabrous, adhering well to the fruit ; tlesh deep golden-yellow, often reddish, juicy, coarse, firm, tender, sweet, pleas- ant ; good ; stone "free, the cavity larger than the pit, long-oval, necked, abruptly tipped at the apex, reddish, rough. ARCTIC. P. domestica. Arctic is supposed to be preeminent in two qualities, hardiness and productiveness; but as to its hardiness pomologists do not agree. Downing says it is the hardiest phim known; in Michigan it is reported very tender in the nurser>' row; a Canadian writer says it is not hardy enough for Canada; and it is reputed in the prairie states to be not hardier than Lombard. The place of its origin, where few plums are grown, and the fact that it is one of but few plums that can be grown in parts of Canada and New Brunswick, establish the claim that it is one of the hardiest of the Domesticas, pos- sibly not hardier, however, than Lombard, Voronesh, and a few others. The small size and mediocre qualitj^ of the fruit and the dwarfish tree rule Arctic out where less hardy varieties can be grown. This variety was first noted in 1881 by Downing, who says it origi- nated on the grounds of A. T. Moore, Ashland, Maine. Tree small, upright-spreading, very hardy, productive, an early bearer, subject to
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