. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 220 WILD GOOSE WOLF tender in tree and bud, hardy only where the peach can be grown; it blooms too early to be safe from frost; it is susceptible to brown-rot;. 211. Wickson. (XD the trees are lute in coming in bearing and are not reliable in fruiting; the fruits ripen un- evenly; and the trees are not of good form for heavy crops. In California, however, Wickson is one of the leading Japanese sorts, and is apparently growing in favor. Wickson is the best known of Burbank's many plums. It was first described in 1892. Tree medium to large, vig
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 220 WILD GOOSE WOLF tender in tree and bud, hardy only where the peach can be grown; it blooms too early to be safe from frost; it is susceptible to brown-rot;. 211. Wickson. (XD the trees are lute in coming in bearing and are not reliable in fruiting; the fruits ripen un- evenly; and the trees are not of good form for heavy crops. In California, however, Wickson is one of the leading Japanese sorts, and is apparently growing in favor. Wickson is the best known of Burbank's many plums. It was first described in 1892. Tree medium to large, vigorous, with narrow, upright head, dense-topped, tender to cold, an uncertain bearer. Leaves oblanceolate, 1 inch wide, 3 inches long, thin; apex taper-pointed ; base cuneate; margin finely serrate, with reddish glands; petiole % inch long, faintly tinged red, glandless or with 1-9 small, reniform, greenish or yellow glands. Flowers appearing after the leaves, intermediate in size, white. Fruit early midseason; 2% inches in diameter, obliquely cordate, halves unequal ; cavity deep, abrupt, with concentric rings; suture prominent and deep, with a prolonged tip at the apex; color dark red over a yellow ground, in- distinctly splashed with darker red, mottled with thin bloom ; dots numerous, small, yellow, densely clustered about the apex; stem thick, \i inch long, glabrous; skin thin, tender, separating easily; flesh amber-yellow, juicy, coarse, fibrous, firm, sweet, pleasant but not high in flavor; good; stone clinging, oval or ovate, pointed, with pitted surfaces. WILD GOOSE. Fig. 212. P. Munsoniana. Wild Goose was the first of the native plums to be generally grown as a distinct variety. It is probably a parent of more sorts than any other variety of the several cultivated native species; most of its offspring so strongly re- semble it that its name has been given to a group of closely related sorts. In spite of the great number of native plums that have been introduced in rece
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