Narrative
Type = Plum. Per Hedrick (see citation): "Tree medium to large, vigorous; leaves folded upward, obovate, one and three-quarters inches wide, three and three-quarters inches long, apex and base acute; petiole three-quarters inch long with globose glands; season of bloom medium, short; flowers one and one-eighth inches across, white; fruit midseason, ripening period long, one and five-eighths inches by one and one-half inches in size, roundish oval, apex roundish, color greenish-yellow changing to bronze yellow sometimes with a faint pink blush on the exposed cheek, often indistinctly streaked and mottled with green before full maturity; skin thin, tough, slightly adhering; flesh deep yellow, juicy, firm but tender, sweet, mild, pleasant, very good quality; stone semi-free, one inch by three-quarters inch in size, flattened, broadly oval; one of the best of all dessert plums; large for a plum in the Reine Claude group; trees are late in coming to bearing; not quite hardy though one of the hardiest of all Reine Claudes. The parentage of the variety is unknown; Floy thought it was a seedling of Washington; Elliott suggested that it was "from a seed of Coe's Golden Drop, which in growth and wood, it closely resembles." In 1852, the American Pomological Society placed this variety on its catalog of fruits worthy of general cultivation." Per Thomas (see citation): "Base slightly narrowed; thin white bloom; stalk an inch long, sunk little or none; flesh rich yellow, moderately fine grained, in well-ripened specimens orange."