THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 409 



flesh yellow, soft, juicy, vinous; clingstone; mid-season; rejected by the American 

 Pomological Society. 



Briancon. Domestica? i. Land. Hori. Soc. Cat. 144. 1831. 2, Prince Pom. Man. 

 2:105. 1832. 3. Poiteau Pom. Franc, i. 1846. 



De Briancon i, 3. Prune de Briancon 3. Prune de Brigantiaca 2, 3. 



A variety indigenous to the Alps in southeastern France. Trees grow to the height 

 of eight or ten feet; fruit small, nearly round, smooth, yellow, with reddish tinge; 

 flesh yellow; freestone. The stone contains a bitter kernel, from which is extracted 

 a valuable oil. Prince considered the tree a hybrid between the plum and the apricot. 

 Brignole. Domestica. i. Miller Card. Did. 3. 1754. 2. Knoop Fructologie 2:55. 

 1771. 3. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 151. 1831. 4. Prince Povt. Man. 2:67. 1832. 

 5. Floy-Lindley Guide Orcli. Card. 295, 383. 1846. 



Prune de Brignole i. Brignole Plum 1. Brignole Jaune 2. Perdrigon de Brignole 

 Gros 3. Perdrigon de Brignole ?4. Brignole Jaune 5. Prune de Brignole 5. 



The Brignole plum is named from Brignoles, a town in France where it is used with 

 the White Perdrigon for the famous Brignoles Prunes. Duhamel and several others 

 have confused the two varieties but they seem to be distinct. The Brignole is larger, 

 its skin less tough, flesh more yellow and the season later than White Perdrigon. 

 Brignole Violette. Do^nestica. i. Knoop Fructologie 2:55. 1771. 2. Quintinye Com. 

 Card. 68, 69. 1699. 3. Cal. State Bd. Hort. Rpt. 107. 1891. 

 • Brugnole 2. Brignole 2. Brignole 3. 



This seems to be a purple strain of the Brignole which has found its way into Cali- 

 fornia. Fruit oval, medium in size, violet; dots light yellow, yellow spots on the sunny 

 side; flesh greenish-yellow, tender, juicy, sweet; freestone; best adapted to a warm 

 climate. 



Brill. Cerasifera. i. Card. Mon. 17:305. 1875. 2. Vt. Sta. An. Rpt. 13:368. 1900. 

 3. Waugh Plum Cult. 230. 1901. 4. Ga. Sta. Bui. 67:272. 1904. 



This plum is thought to have originated in Mississippi and was introduced by J. T. 

 Whitaker, Tyler, Texas. Tree vigorous, with an upright-spreading habit; fruit small, 

 round; cavity broad, shallow; stem long, slender;' suture a line; bright red with yellow 

 dots; bloom thin; skin thin; flesh yellow, soft, juicy; quality fair; stone small, cling- 

 ing; early; listed in the American Pomological Society catalog of fruits for 1875 but 

 removed in 1883. 

 Bristol. Domestica. i. ///. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 212. 1904. 



Bristol, as tested in Illinois, is very similar to, if not identical with the Lombard. 

 Briton Seedling. Domestica. i. Montreal Hort. Soc. Rpt. 92. 1885. 



An unproductive seedling of Canadian origin. Fruit of medium size, very dark 

 blue; bloom heavy; flesh greenish, firm, juicy, sweet and pleasant; late. 

 Brittlewood. Americana, i. Wis. Sta. Bui. 63:30. 1897. 2. U. S. D. A. Yearbook 

 477, 478, PI. LXII. 1902. Brittlewood No. 1 2. 



Theodore Williams of Benson, Nebraska, grew this variety from seed of Quaker 

 pollinated by Harrison. Tree large, vigorous, spreading; fruit large, nearly round, 



