Narrative
Type = Plum. Per The American Fruit Culturist (see citation): "Marianna. Medium, round-oblong; red, yellow specks, fine bloom; flesh soft, juicy, sweet, semi-cling." Per The Plums of New York (see citation): "Tree large, vigorous, broad, spreading, open and flat-topped, hardy, unproductive...leaves folded upward, elongated-oval, one and one-eighth inches wide, two and five-eighths inches long, thin...blooming season intermediate in time and length; flowers appearing after the leaves, three-quarters inch across, white; borne in clusters on lateral spurs, in twos or in threes...fruit early, season of medium length; one and one-eighth inches or more in diameter, oval or roundish-oval...color bright, light red changing to darker red, overspread with thin bloom...flesh yellow, tinged red under the skin and next to the stone, unusually juicy, fibrous, watery and melting, sweet next to the skin, but acid near the pit, sprightly inferior in quality; stone clinging,..."