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332.) Downing gives Hinckley, Isabel, Gillett, Townsend, and Robinson as synonyme 

 of Miner. The Robinson now known is a very different fruit. (See No. 86.) The Miner 

 is one of the best and most popular of the native plump, and is probably grrown further 

 north with success than any other variety of this species (Groups B and C). In central 

 New York it ripens in October. Colored plate in Agriculture of Pennsylvania, 1881. C. 



Fig. 5. — Langsdon. % full size. 

 (Fruits immature.) 



Parsons. — Supposed to be identical with Miner, which see. C. 



71. Prairie Flower.— A variety introduced by Stark Bros., Missouri; probably 

 belongs in this group. 



72. Rachel. -Medium, round-oblong, dull red, thick ekin; stone cling, short and broad, 

 thin-margined on the front edge, scHrcely pointed, smooth, Americana-like; leaves long, 

 elhptic-obovate, moderately pointed, stalks glandular. Medium to late. C. 



The Miner group appears to be a strong and hardy race which is par- 

 ticularly adapted to the northern limits of the cultivation of the Hortulana 

 family. The varieties are much alike. The Miner is the most popular 

 member of the group, and it succeeds even in northern Illinois. In New 

 York the varieties ripen from late September even to late October. 



D. The Chickasaw Group. — {Pnimts avgnsfifolia, Marshall, Arbus- 

 trum Americauum, 111. [I'i85]. [Prnnvs Chickasa, Michx. Flor. Bor.- 

 Am. i. 284 ]). This group of plums differs from the Wild Goose group 

 (B) by a more slender, spreading, and zigzag growth, usually smaller size 

 of tree, red twigs, by smaller, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate very closely 

 serrate shining leaves which are conduplicate or trough-like in habit, by 

 early small flowers, which, upon old wood, are densely clustered on the 

 spurs, and by an early red (rarely yellow) and more or less spotted 



