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63. Clinton (Fig. 4). — Fruit large, round, dull red, skin medium thick; cling, the stone 

 short and broad and scarcely pointed, nearly smooth; flowers medium; leaves (see cut^ 

 elliptic to elliptic obovate, 

 rather prominently point- 

 ed, the stalks glandular. 

 Mid-season, ripening sev- 

 eral days before Miner 

 Thought by some 

 to be the same as 

 Miner, but the 

 leaves, at least, 

 appear to be dif- 

 ferent. ™^^^^^^^™» ic^m„^mw ^. „ -,- , 



64. Forest Rose. — Large to 

 very large, round, dull, red, 

 skin medium thick; stone 

 cling, broad and compara- 

 tively flat, sharp on the front 

 edge, scarcely pointed, 

 Fig. i.-Leaf of Clinton, full size. smooth , Americana like; 



flowers medium to large; leaves elliptic to elliptic-obovate, prominently pointed, the 

 stalks ordinarily bearing two small glands. Medium to late, of good quality. A Mis- 

 souri wild variety, introduced by William Stark in 1878. C. 



65. Idol — Medium to rather large, round, bright light crimson splashed with magenta, 

 skin thin; stone small, cling; leaves obovate, the stalks glandular. Medium season. 

 Said by L). B. Wier, the originator, to be very large, weighing as much as the average 

 Lombard, but B. O. Curtis, Paris, Illinois, who now handles some of Wier's varieties, 

 says that with him it is rather small and ripens the last of September and first of 

 October. Said by Mr. Wier to be a cross between Miner and Wild Goose. Illinois. 



66. Indiana Red. — Large, round, red: cling; flowers medium; leaves elliptic-ovate» 

 prominently pointed, coarsely toothed, the stalks mostly prominently glandular. Medium 

 to late. Said to have been an Indiana wild variety and to have been introduced by Dr. 

 I. Cramer. By some thought to be the same as Miner. C. 



67. Iris. — A medium red plum, with rather small and turgid stones which are scarcely 

 pointed, and smooth or nearly so; flowers medium; leaves elliptic or elliptic-obovate, 

 long-poiuted, the stalks glandular. Illinois. D. B. Wier, originator and introducer. C. 



68. Langsdon (Fig. 5).— Medium, round or round-oblong, light-red: stone cling, small 

 and nearly smooth, turgid, very short-pointed; leaves obovate or elliptic-obovate, 

 moderately pjinted, the glands small. Medium to late. Much like Miner. 



69. Leptune. — Medium, round, dark-red, skin thick: cling, stone rather small and 

 turgid, nearly smooth, short-pointed; leaves elliptic-ovate to elliptic-obovate, very long- 

 pointed ard coarsely serrate, stalks either glandless or glandular. Late. Said to have 

 been introduced by J. D. Morrow & Sons, Arkansas. 



70. ilfmrr.— Large, round or roundish-oblong, dull red, skin thick; stone cling, short 

 and broad, smooth or very nearly so, very short-pointed, rather sharp on the front edge, 

 Americana-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 Mr. Miner, Lancaster county, Penn., but this is a 

 mistake. The seed which produced the Miner plum was planted in 1814, in Knox 

 county, Tennessee, by William Dodd, an officer under General Jackson. Dodd appears 

 to have had two batches of seed, one which he gathered the year before upon Talaposa 

 creek, and the other given him by an Indian chief. It is not clear from which lot this 

 plum sprung. The plum gained some notice when it came into bearing, and was known 

 as Old Hickory and (Jeneral Jackson. In 1823 or 1824 Dodd moved to Illinois and set- 

 tled near Springfield, taking some sprouts of his plum with him. The plums soon 

 attracted attention among Dodd's neighbors, and the variety was called in its new home 

 William Dodd and Chickasaw Chief. The year following William Dodd's removal to 

 Illinois, his brother moved to Galena, Illinois, and took some of the plums. About 

 Galena the plum^^ became know as the Hinckley. I do not know how the name Miner 

 came to be applied to it, but Downing's reference to Mr. Miner of Pennsylvania— who 

 probably grew and dissi-minated it— undoubtedly explains it. It is said by D. B. Wier 

 that the late Hon. James G. Soulard of Galena, introduced this plum to general 

 cultivation, and I repeated this statement last year in a discussion of the Soulard crab. 

 For a fuller history of the Mine'*, see A. Giddings in Iowa Agricultural Report, 1871, 



