The Cultivated JSTative Plums and Cherries. 



57 



like; flowers medium to large; leaves large and heavy, usually 

 inclined to be obovate, rather long-pointed, the stalks glandular. 

 Medium to late. Said by Downing* to have originated with Mi 

 Miner, Lancaster county, Penn., but this is a mistake. The seed 

 which produced the Miner plum was planted in 1814, in Knox 

 bounty, Tennessee, by William Dodd, an jfficer under General 



Figure 5. — Laagsdon. Three-quarter full size. (Fruits immature ) 



Jackson. Dodd appears to have had two batches of seed, one 

 which he gathered the yeai' before upon Talaposa. creek, and Ihe 

 other given him by an Indian chief. It is not clear from whicli 

 lot this plum sipining. The plum gained some notice when it came 

 into bearing, and was known as Old Hickory and General Jackson. 

 In 182.3 or 1824 Dodd moved to Illinois and settled near Springfield, 



* Fruits and Fruit Trees, 2d ed., 931. 



8 



