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from the seeds. Twenty of the trees were indistinguishable from peach, but 

 the remaining one, as indicated above, gives every evidence of being a 

 hybrid. One other apparent hybrid is the 



95. Blackmail. — Nearly thirty years ago Mrs. Charity Clark procured from an 

 •rchard in Rutherford county, Tenn., which contained Wild Goose and Washington 

 plums, seeds of plums and gave them to Dr. Blackman, of Nasliville. One tree among 

 the resulting seedlings bore good fruit and it was called the Blackman, and was dis- 

 seminated by a local nurseryman. A competing nursery, in endeavoring to procure 

 eions from this tree, inadvertently cut them from an adjacent tree — itself one of the 

 batch of seedlings— and sold the trees which it grew as Blackman. Now this second 

 tree makes fruit buds in abundance but they never open; and from the resemblance of 

 the leaves to those of the peach the plant is generally thought to be a hybrid between 

 the Wild Goose and the peach. This assumption finds partial confirmation in the 

 experiments of Mr. Kerr, recorded above, for this spurious Blackman is very much like 

 his hybrid although the leaves are more pointed and still more peach like. Curiously 

 enough, the genuine Blackman has never been widely disseminated, but the spurious and 

 worthless substitute has been sold in large quantities. In order to avoid confusion, the 

 original Blackman has been rechristened Charity Clark. There are therefore, two 

 Blackman plums, one of which is practically unknown to cultivation, but which hsis 

 been renamed, and the other is barren and will soon pass from sight * C. 



I. Unclassified Varieties. — The following varieties I know only from 

 printed references or from information afforded by correspondents, and I 

 «an not, therefore, refer them to their proper species. 



96. Allen's Yelloiv. — Medium, round, yellow and red, skin thick; cling. Kansas. 



97. Barry. 



98. Champion. — Very large, oblong, dark red, thick skin; flesh firm; cling. Late. H. 

 A. Terry, 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. Terry, Iowa, 1885. Originated 

 under cultivation. 



100. Cherokee. — A medium size plum, round-oblong, blotched red, thick skin; cling. 

 Said to have been found wild in Kansas. 



101. Col. Wilder. — Large round-oblong, red, thin skin; flesh firm and of best quality; 

 cling. Medium to late. H. A. Terry, Iowa. 1888. Originated under cultivation. 



102. Cook^s Choice. — Medium, round, red, thin skin; flesh of best culinary quality; 

 cling. Medium to late. H. A. Terry, 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 thick; cling. Late. H. A. 

 Terry, Iowa, 1885. Originated under cultivation. 



105. Diamond. — Seedling fiom wild Nebraska, seed grown by John A. Hogg. 

 ^' Grows fully as large as most of the tame varieties. Ripens last of September, and 

 when fully ripe gets bright red on one side." — John A. Hogg, Nebr. Hort. Rept. 1890, 

 121. 



106. Dr. Dennis. — Large, round-oblong, red, thin skin; flesh firm and good; cling. H. 

 A. Terry, Iowa, 1890. Originated under cultivation. 



107. Dunlap. — Large, round, yellow, thin skin; flesh flrm and of high quality; cling. 

 Medium season. Nebraska seedling introduced by J. P. Dunlap. 



108. Early Honey. — An early variety, evidently a Chickasaw, which originated in 

 Grayson county, Texas. 



109. Ellis. — Rather large, round, red, skin very thin; semi-cling. Ranks high for 

 market or for home use. Late. Said to be a cross between Wild Goose and Golden 

 Beauty. Nortb Texas. Introduced by T L. Ellis. 



* For a faller accoant of the Blackman plams, see VaaDeman in Rept. Dept. Agric. 1887, 6;36. The 

 Blackmau has been recommenced ab a stock for peaches upon the sapposition that it enjoys immanitf 

 irom yellows. See Csd. Orchard and Farm, iv. 3. 



