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THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



SAINT CATHERINE 



Prunus domestica 



1. Quintinye Com. Card. 67, 68, 69. 1699. 2. Langley Pomona 94, PI. 24 fig. 6. 1729. 3. 

 mWer Card. Did. 3. 1754. 4. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:97, PI. XX fig. 5, 109, PI. XIX. 1768. 

 5. Knoop Fructologie 2:55. 1771. 6. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 153. 1831. 7. Prince Pom. Man. 

 2:76,103. 1832. 8. Kenrick^m. Orc/i. 267. 1832. 9. Gallesio Pow. //aj. 2:PI. 1839. 10. Down- 

 ing Fr. Trees Am. 283 fig. 112. 1845. 11. Floy-Lindley Guide Orch. Card. 298, 383. 1846. 12. 

 Poiteau Pom. Franc. 1:1846. 13. U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt. XXX. 1854. 14. Ann. Pom. Beige 65, 

 PI. 1855. 15. Thompson Card. Ass't 520. 1859. 16. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 86. 1862. 17. Pom. 

 France 7:No. 23. 1871. 18. Mas Lt Verger 6:89, fig. 45. 1866-73. IP- Hogg Fruit Man. 724. 

 1SS4. 20. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 431. 1889. 21. Wickson Cal. Fruits 356 fig. 1891. 22. Guide 

 Prat. 161, 365. 1895. 23. Oregon Sta. Bui. 45:33 fig. 1897. 



Bricet 7. Bricette 4, 7, 12. Bricette 7, 19. Brtsette 20, 22. Catherine (Prune de Ste.) 5. 

 Catharinenpflaume 18, 20, 21. De Sainte-Catherine 22. Gelbe Catharinenpflaume 20. Gelbe 

 Catharinenpflaume 18, 22. Gelbe Katharinenpfiaume 17, 22. Gute Kathe 20. Mirabelle Tardive 7. 

 Petite Bricette 7. Pruneau de Tours 18. Prune de Sainte Catherine 7, 17, 20. Prune Sainte Cathe- 

 rine 13. Prune Sainte-Catherine 18. Prune Sainte-Catherine J aune 18. Prunier Sainte-Catherine 

 14. Pruneaux de Tours 13. St. Catharine i, 2, 7, 8, 16, 19, 23. Saint Catherine 7. Sainte 

 Catherine 11, 20. Sainte-Catharine 3, 4, 12, 17, 18, 22. Sainte-Catherine de Tours 17, 20, 22. 

 Sainte-Catherine jaune 20, 21. Sainte-Catherine ordinaire 17, 20, 22. St. Katharine i. Spate 

 Mirabelle 20 incor., 22. Susina Di Santa Caterina 9. Torlo d'Ovo 9. Torlo d'JJovo 9. Yellow 

 St. Catharine 7. 



This plum is grown only on the Pacific Coast in America and even 

 there is to be found but locally and is now passing from cultivation. It 

 is, however, one of the well-known sorts in Europe, especially in France 

 where it is used for pnme-making. It appears to be of the Reine Claude 

 group in which group America has so many plums of surpassing merit 

 that this one has no place on this side of the Atlantic. It is included in 

 The Plums of New York largely because of its historic interest and because 

 there seems to be no complete description of it made from trees and fruits 

 grown on this continent. 



The origin of this old plum is unknown. It was first mentioned by 

 Quintinye in 1699. Wherever it originated, it is now grown most exten- 

 sively in France and is known to commerce as the Prune of Tours. The 

 people in Northern Italy cultivate it under the name Torlo d'Ovo (Refer- 

 ences, 9). The Belgians have used Saint Catherine incorrectly for the 

 Imperiale Violette (References, 14). In America, according to Kenrick, it 

 was not uncommon around Boston in 1832 but it evidently did not receive 

 much recognition, for the United States Patent Office reimported it from 

 France in 1854 and distributed it in the northeastern part of this country. 

 The American Pomological Society added it to its fruit catalog list in 

 1862 and dropped it in 1899. 



