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Henrietta Gage. Domestica. i. Gen. Farmer 9:232. 1848. 2. Downing Fr. Trees 

 Am. 920. 1869. 3. Mas Pom. Gen. 2:169. 1873. 

 Early Genesee 2. Henrietta Gage 3. Reine-Claude D'Henrietta 3. 

 Originated about 1840 on the farm of a Mr. Brown, Henrietta, Monroe County, 

 New York. Similar to Reine Claude but much eariier. 

 Henry Clay. Domestica. i. Cultivator 3:20. 1855. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 2:95. ^^73- 



A seedling of Howard raised by Elisha Dorr, Albany, New York; named by Dr. 

 Warder of Cincinnati, Ohio; first fruited in 1852. Fruit large, oval; suture broad 

 and shallow; stem long, rather thick; skin clear yellow, often washed and dotted 

 with red on the sunny exposure; flesh clear yellow, sweet, vinous; good; stone small, 

 clinging; mid-season. 

 Herbst Kriecke. Insititia? i. Mathieu Norn. Pom. 435. 1889. 



Mention of the variety found by Matliieu in Wiener Garten-Zeitung 288. 1884. 

 Herbstpflaume. Domestica. i. Oberdieck Dent. Obst. Sort. 445. 188 1. 



A German variety; unproductive in dr>' soils. 

 Hereford Damson. Insititia. i. Watkins Cat. 48. 1892? 



Mentioned in the preceding reference as a favorite and very productive. 

 Herefordshire Prune. Domestica. i. Thompson Card. Ass't 4:160. 1901. 



Fruit large, obovate; flesh firm, yellowish-green. 

 Heron. Domestica. i. U. S. D. A. Pom. Rpt. 26. 1894. 2. Cornell Sta. Bid. 131: 187. 

 1897. 3. Rivers Cat. 35. 1898. 

 Originated and introduced by Thomas Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, England. Popular 

 in England but on account of its poor foliage it is of little value in this country. Fruit 

 large, roundish, dark purplish-red; dots small; skin sour; flesh greenish-yellow, firm, 

 meaty, moderately juicy, subacid; good; stone large, oval, semi-free; early. 

 Heroy. Species? Mentioned in Mathieu Norn. Pom. 435. 1889. 

 Herren. Domestica. i. Can. Exp. Farm Bui. 2d Ser. 3:52. 1900. 



A vigorous variety of the Reine Claude type grown in Germany. Fruit of medium 

 size, roundish, slightly flattened at both ends; suture distinct; sides often unequal; 

 dull yellow; flesh yellowish, firm, coarse, sweet, juicy, pleasant; freestone; mid-season. 

 Herzformige Pflaume. Species? Mentioned in Mathieu Nom. Pom. 435. 1889. 



Prune Cordiforme. 

 Heupflaume. Species? i. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 435. 1889. 



Reference obtained by Mathieu in Wiener Garten-Zeitung 288. 1884. 

 Hiawatha. Americana, i. Kerr Cat. 1894. 2. Wis. Sta. Bid. 63:41. 1897. 3. 

 Waugh Plum Cult. 152. 1901. 

 Introduced by C. W. H. Heideman, New Ulm, Minnesota, as an example of a 

 staminate-flowered plum; rarely productive. Fruit very large, roundish-oblong, pur- 

 plish-red; clingstone; early. 

 Highland. Domestica. i. Cat. State Bd. Hort. Rpt. 8:47. 1897. 



A seedling of Agen, grown by Luther Burbank, Santa Rosa, California. Tree 

 vigorous and productive; fruit large, long-oval, purplish-crimson; flesh yellow, firm, 

 sweet; flavor excellent; stone nearly free. 



