Archive image from page 244 of Cyclopedia of hardy fruits (1922). Cyclopedia of hardy fruits cyclopediaofhard00hedr Year: 1922 MINER MONARCH 209 tenaciously to the stone, even after cooking. Milton, a seedling of Wild Goose grown by H. A. Terry, Crescent, Iowa, fruited first in 1885. Tree of medium size and vigor, round and dense- topped, hardy, productive, healthy. Leaves oblanceolate, peach-like, 1 inch wide, 3 inches long, tnin ; apex taper- pointed ; base slightly acute; margin serrate or crenate, with numerous, minute, dark glands; petiole inch long, slender, reddish, pubescent, glandl
Archive image from page 244 of Cyclopedia of hardy fruits (1922). Cyclopedia of hardy fruits cyclopediaofhard00hedr Year: 1922 MINER MONARCH 209 tenaciously to the stone, even after cooking. Milton, a seedling of Wild Goose grown by H. A. Terry, Crescent, Iowa, fruited first in 1885. Tree of medium size and vigor, round and dense- topped, hardy, productive, healthy. Leaves oblanceolate, peach-like, 1 inch wide, 3 inches long, tnin ; apex taper- pointed ; base slightly acute; margin serrate or crenate, with numerous, minute, dark glands; petiole inch long, slender, reddish, pubescent, glandless or with 1-4 small, globose, yellowish-brown glands. Flowers inch across, the buds creamy when opening, changing to white, odor disagreeable. Fruit very early; 1V4 inches by 1 inch in size, oval, compressed, halves equal; cavity shallow, narrow, abrupt, regular; suture a dis- tinct line; apex slightly pointed; color dark red, with thin bloom; dots very numerous, large, russet; stem slender, 1 inch long ; skin thin, tough, astringent; flesh yellow, pulp fibrous, sweet next the skin, acid at the center; fair to good; stone adhering, long-oval, elongated at the base and apex, somewhat flattened, surface broken into irregular ridges. MINER. P. hortulana Mineri. In the Mid- dle West, Miner is probably as widely dis- seminated and as largely grown as any other pium, being particularly adapted to the north- ern limits of the cultivation of its species. The tree is robust, healthy, better in habit of growth for orchard management than that of any other of the native plums, and usually productive. The fruits are good in quality, attractive in appearance, comparatively cur- culio-proof, and are especially suited for culinarj- uses. The variety is unproductive unless cross-fertilized. In 1813, William Dodd found this plum growing in a Chicasaw Indian plantation on the Tallapoosa River, Alabama. Tree large, vigorous, spreading, hardy, unproductive unless cross-pollinated. Leaves fallin
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