Archive image from page 243 of Cyclopedia of hardy fruits (1922). Cyclopedia of hardy fruits cyclopediaofhard00hedr Year: 1922 208 MAQUOKETA MILTON nated near Lake City, Florida, from seed of Kelaey, and was introduced in 1910 by the Glen St. Maiy Nurseries. The fruits are de- scribed as midseason, of medium size, round, yellow washed with dull red in the sun; dots numerous; bloom thin; flesh yellow, firm, juicy, subacid; good. MAQUOKETA. P. hortulana Mineri. Maquoketa is one of the best of the native plums for culinary purposes, which also keep and ship w-ell. The trees, like those of nearl
Archive image from page 243 of Cyclopedia of hardy fruits (1922). Cyclopedia of hardy fruits cyclopediaofhard00hedr Year: 1922 208 MAQUOKETA MILTON nated near Lake City, Florida, from seed of Kelaey, and was introduced in 1910 by the Glen St. Maiy Nurseries. The fruits are de- scribed as midseason, of medium size, round, yellow washed with dull red in the sun; dots numerous; bloom thin; flesh yellow, firm, juicy, subacid; good. MAQUOKETA. P. hortulana Mineri. Maquoketa is one of the best of the native plums for culinary purposes, which also keep and ship w-ell. The trees, like those of nearly all the Miner-like plums, are better formed and more adaptable to orchard conditions than those of other native sorts. After the Ameri- cana and Nigra plums, Maquoketa is one of the hardiest of the native varieties, growing even in Minnesota. The variety belongs, however, in the South and Middle West. The origin of this plum is uncertain. It has been known to fruit-growers since about 1889. Tree spreadmg, low-topped, open, hardy, productive. Leaves falling olf early, broadly lanceolate, peach-like, 1 inches wide, 4 inches long; apex taper-pointed; base abrupt ; margin with serrations in 2 series, with very small, black glands; petiole inch long, tinged with dull red, hairy, with 1-4 globose, large, dark brownish-yellow glands. Flowers 1 inch across, yellow- ish as the buds begin to open, changing to white, with a disagreeable odor. Fruit late ; below medium in size, ovate, halves equal; cavity shallow, wide, rounded, flaring; suture a line; slightly pointed; color dark carmine, with thin bloom; dots numerous, small, clus- tered about the apex: stem slender, glabrous, parting readily; skin thick, tough, astringent, semi-adherent, removing a thin layer of the pulp when detached; flesh deep yellow, juicy, coarse, fibrous, sweet at first but astringent near the pit; fair in quality; stone of medium size, oval, turgid, bluntly pointed at the base and apex, with slightly roughen
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