THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 525 



Quetsche Precoce Liegel. Domestica. i. Mas Pom. 6't'«. 2 isj. 1873. 2. Matliieu iVcm. 

 Pom. 439. 1889. 



Liegels Friihzwetsche i. Licgcls Friihzwetsche 2. Qiwische Hdtive de Liegel 2. 

 Quetsche Precoce de Liegel 2. 



Found growing among German Prune trees by M. Liegel; differs from the German 

 Prune only in that its fruit matures a few days earlier. 

 Quetsche Precoce De Schamal. Domestica. i. Mas Pom. Gen. 2:5. 1873. 



Schamals Friihzwetsche 1. 



Originated by M. Schamal of Jungbunzlau, Bohemia. Fruit small, obovate; suture 

 narrow, shallow; dark purple; flesh yellow, sweet, perfumed; good; freestone. 

 Quetsche Ronde. Domestica. i. Knoop Fructologie 2:62. 1771. 



A strain of the German Prime. 

 Quetsche Verte D'ltalie. Domestica. i. Kraft Potn. Aiist. 2:34, Tab. 182 fig. 2. 1796. 

 2. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 152. 1831. 3. Mas. Lc Verger 6:97. 1866-73. 

 4. Guide Prat. 162, 363. 1895. 



Die lange, griine und grosses welsche Pflaume? i. Griine Eierpflaume 4. Gntne 

 Zwetsche 4. Italienische Griine Zwetsche 3, 4. Verdage D'ltalie 3, 4. Verlage d'ltalie 

 tres-grosse i. 



A European plum of unknown origin. Tree large; fruit large, ellipsoidal; suture 

 very shallow; skin tender, not adherent, greenish-yellow, specked with red; stem short; 

 flesh greenish-yellow, melting, juicy, aromatic; of first quality; clingstone; mid-season. 

 Quitique. Species? Letter from F. T. Ramsey. 



Selected from the wild near Quitique, Texas. 

 RacheL Hortulana mineri. i. Cornell Sta. Bui. 38:58, 86. 1892. 2. Waugh Plum 

 Cidt. 175. 1901. 3. Ga. Sta. Bui. 67:280. 1904. 



Fruit small, roundish; suture a line; cavity shallow; bright red; dots yellow, 

 conspicuous; blue; flesh yellow, melting; quality fair; clingstone; mid-season. 

 Rademakers. Domestica. i. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 444. 1889. 2. Can. Exp. Farm 

 Bui. 2nd Ser. 3:53. 1900. Brugnon de Neerveteren i. Rademaker's Prune i. 



Under test at the British Columbia Experimental Station. 

 Ragland. Triflora X Angustifolia varians. i. Vt. Sta. Bui. 67:19. 1898. 2. Kerr 

 Cat. II. 1900. 3. Waugh Plum Cult. 223. 1901. 



A hybrid grown by D. H. Watson, Brcnham, Texas, supposedly from seed of 

 Kelsey pollinated by Yellow Transparent; introduced by W. A. Yates in 1897. Fruit 

 of medium size, oblate; cavity broad, rounded; suture lacking; bright clear yellow; 

 dots yellow; bloom white; flesh j'cllow, firm, juicy, sweet, rich; ver\^ good; stone 

 small, clinging; early. 

 Raisin. Domestica. i. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 152. 1831. 2. Mag. Hort. 9:165. 1843. 



An old European variety now obsolete. Fruit small, round, greenish; of medium 

 quality; clingstone. 

 Ramsey Last. Munsoniana. Letter from Kerr. 



Originated with F. T. Ramsey, Austin, Texas. Fruit small; good; late for its group. 



