. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. Minnetonka, ets., are plums in cultivation ofthis origin. Its wood is heavy, a cu. ft. when absolutelydry weighing lbs., close-grained, hard andstrong, but of no commercial Leaves ovate to obovate, 21^-4 in. long, narrowed and rounded or tapering at base, acuminataat apex, sharply and sometimes doubly-serratinearly glabrous when they unfold and at maturityrugose, dark green above, paler and with proniinent reticulate veins beneath ; petioles mostlyglandless. Floircru whe
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. Minnetonka, ets., are plums in cultivation ofthis origin. Its wood is heavy, a cu. ft. when absolutelydry weighing lbs., close-grained, hard andstrong, but of no commercial Leaves ovate to obovate, 21^-4 in. long, narrowed and rounded or tapering at base, acuminataat apex, sharply and sometimes doubly-serratinearly glabrous when they unfold and at maturityrugose, dark green above, paler and with proniinent reticulate veins beneath ; petioles mostlyglandless. Floircru when leaves are about halfgrown, in J-i-llowered glabrous umbels: calyxlobes sometimes entire, pilose inside; petalswhite, rounded with claw. Fruit subglobose orslightly elongated with tough acerb skin orangeor red often with pale spots; pit oval, rathersmoothish and turgid and slightly ridged on theventral side and obscurely grooved on the dorsal. Var. luiiata Sudw. is a form ranging fromMissouri to Texas with onl)seent under surfacesof leaves, calyx-lobes, iiedieels ami braiichlets. 1. A. W., XI,
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