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THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



ORLEANS 



Prunus dotnestica 



I. Quintinye Com. Card. 68. 1699. 2. Langley Pomona 91, PI. XX fig. 4. 1729. 3. Miller 

 Gard. Diet. 3:1754- 4- Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:78, PI. VII. 1768. 5. Knoop Fructologie 2:52, 

 55. 56, 57- 1771. 6. Forsyth Treat. Fr. Trees 19. 1803. 7. Kraft Pom. Aust. 2:32, Tab. 179 

 fig. I. 1796. 8. Brookshaw Pom. Brit. PI. XI. 1817. 9. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 145, 150. 1831. 

 10. Prince Pom. Man. 2:62, 67, 85. 1832. 11. Poiteau Pom. Franc. 1:1846. 12. FIoy-Lindley 

 Guide Orch. Gard. 289, 290, 383. 1846. 13. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 339. 1849. 14. Elliott Fr. 

 Book 428. 1854. 15. Thompson Gard. Ass't 519. 1859. 16. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 935. 1869. 

 17. Mas Pom. Gen. 2:37, fig. 19. 1873. 18. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 36. 1875. 19. Oberdieck Deui. 

 Obst. Sort. 414. 18S1. 20. Mathieu Noni. Pom. 435. 1882. 21. Hogg Fruit Man. 715. 1884. 

 22. Guide Prat. 156, 360. 1895. 



Anglaise Noire 16, 17, 20, 21, 22. Angloise Noire 5. Brignole ? i. Brugnole ? i. Brignole 

 Violetle 17, 20, 22. Brignole Violette ? 5. Common Orleans 10, 16, 17, 20. Damas Rouge 10. 

 Damas Rouge 5, 9. Damas Violet ? 5. De Monsieur 17, 22. Die Hermpflaume 7. English 

 Orleans 10, 16, 17, 20. French Orleans &. Hernnpflaume 17. Hermpflaume 19. Hermpflaume 22. 

 Herzog von Orleans 20, 22. Italian Damask of some 14. Large Red Orleans 10. Late Monsieur 

 10, 16, 17, 20. Monsieur 4, 9, 10, 12, 17, 22. Monsieur 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21. Monsieur Ordi- 

 naire 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22. Old Orleans 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 22. Orleans 17, 20, 

 22. Orleans Red Damask 20. Prune de Monsieur 10, 16, 20. Prune de Monsieur 11. Prune 

 d'Orleans 16, 17, 20, 21. Prmielk ? 5. Prune Monsieur 7. Red Damask 10. Red Damask 9, 

 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, iS, 20, 21, 22. i?(;d Orleans 10, 16, 17, 20. Red Orleans Plum 6. 



In Europe Orleans is one of the most renowned of the plums culti- 

 vated. A proof of its popularity is the great number of names, as shown 

 in the synonymy given above, under which it passes in England and 

 on the continent. This variety, however, is almost unknown in America 

 though described by all of the older American pomologists and probably 

 introduced time and again during the last hundred years in our orchards. 

 The French fruit books say that the variety thrives better in southern 

 than northern France and nearly all of the European writers state that 

 it does best in high, dry, light, warm soils. It is likely that our climate, 

 and the soils in which plums are generally grown in America, are not suited 

 to this sort. Unfortunately this Station has no trees of this variety and 

 the brief description given is a compilation. 



The Orleans has been cultivated for more than two hiondred years. 

 Langley said of it in 1729 " The Orleans Plumb tho a common, is yet a 

 very valuable Plumb, as well for its fine firm juicy Pulp when well ripened, 

 as its being a constant and plentiful bearer." The Red Damask and the 

 Brugnole mentioned by Quintinye in 1699 are probably the Orleans; but 

 the Prime de Monsieur of Knoop and the Monsieur of Toumefort, which 

 are yellow, are distinct. The variety is evidently of French origin. Mas 



