Plum tree, Suplumfourteen

Abstract

A new variety of plum tree bearing clingstone fruit having a reddish purple skin and ripening approximately with the Santa Rosa variety (unpatented), plums of the new variety having superior shipping and keeping qualities, having flesh which is less acid than that of the Santa Rosa variety and which attains a more fully reddish coloration when relatively immature, and having a somewhat longer ripening period than plums of the Santa Rosa variety.

Having thus described my new variety of plum tree, I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree, as described and illustrated, bearing clingstone fruit which ripens at approximately the same time as the Santa Rosa (unpatented) variety of plum tree to which it is most nearly similar, the fruit of the new variety being characterized as to novelty in relation to the fruit of the Santa Rosa variety in being larger, in having a more purplish and less reddish skin coloration, in having a form which is more narrowly ovoid rather than globose, in which the base is broader and flatter than rounded, in which the shoulders are slanted more toward the apex, in which the apex is a short rounded point rather than being depressed, in having a relatively longer ripening period, in having superior shipping and keeping qualities, and in having flesh which is substantially less acid and which attains a fully reddish coloration when relatively immature.