78 Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



to cultivation, but which has been renamed, and the other is bar- 

 ren and will soon pass from sight.* C. 



I. Unclassified yarieties. — The following vari(^ties I know only 

 from printed references or from information afforded by corres- 

 pondents, and I can not, therefore, refer them to their proper 

 species: 



96. Allen's Yellow.— Medimn, roimd, yellow and red, skin thick; 

 cling. Kansas. 



97. Berry. 



98. Champion. — Verj^ large, oblong, dark red, thick skin; flesh 

 firm; cling. Late. H. A. TeiTy, 1890. Originated under 

 cultivation. 



99. Charles Downing. — Large, round-oblong, red, skin thin; 

 flesh firm; cling. Medium to late. Should be worked on peach. 

 H. A. TeiTj-, Iowa, 1885. Originated under cultivation. 



100. Cherokee. — A medium size plum, round-oblong, blotxjhed 

 her, thick skin; cling. Said to have been found wild in Kansas. 



101. Col. Wilder. — Large round-oblong, red, thin iskin; flesh 

 firm and of best quality; cling. Medium to late. H. A. Terrj', 

 low^a, 1888. Originated under cultivation. 



102. Cook's Choice. — Medium, round, red, thin skin; flesh of 

 best culinary quality; cling. Medium to late. H. A. Tei'rj-, 1885. 

 Originated under cultivation. 



103. Couler. — From Wm. Couler, Chickasaw county, Iowa. 

 " The Couler is a large plum of fair quality, ripening a little before 

 Miner, but sometimes cracks open badly before ripe." — O. H. 

 Kenyon McGregor, Iowa Hort. Kept. XVII, 235. 



104. Crescent City. — Rather large, oblong, dark red, skin thiclc ; 

 cling. Late. H. A. Terry, Iowa, 1885. Originated under 

 cultivation. 



105. Diamond. — Seedling from wild Nebraska seed grown by 

 John A. Hogg. " (xrows fully as large as most of the tame varie- 

 ties. Eipens last of September, and when fully ripe gets bright 

 red on one side." — John A. Hogg, Nebr. Hort. Kept, 1890, 121. 



•For a fuller account of the Blackman plums, see VanDemann in Kept. Dept. Agric, 1887 

 636. The Blackman has been recommended as a stock for peaches upon the supposition that it 

 enjoys immunity from yellows. See Cal. Orchard and Farm, iv, 3 



