564 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



A seedling exhibited at the Toronto Industrial Fair in 1895 by the originator, 

 J. K. Gordon, Whitby, Canada. 



White Com. Domestica. Mentioned in Loytd. Hort. Soc. Cat. 154. 1831. 

 White Diaper. Domestica. i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 952. 1869. 



Diapre Blanc i. Diaprce Blanche i. 



This variety seems to have been known only by Downing who says it is a small, 

 round plum with a whitish-green skin covered with bloom; flesh rather firm, pale 

 yellow, sweet; good; mid-season. 

 White Honey Damson. Insititia. i. Wild Bros. Cat. 1S92. 



A sweet yellow Damson. 

 White Muscle. Domestica. i. Parkinson Par. Tcr. 576. 1629. White Mussell 1. 



A strain of the Muscle plum differing from it only in its greenish-white color. 

 White Otschakoff. Domestica. i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 61. 1887. 2. Bailey Ann. 

 Hort. 18. 1889. Biclaya Otschakorskaya i. 



One of the numerous varieties imported from East Europe by the Iowa Agricul- 

 tural College about 1882. At one time recommended for the prairie states by Pro- 

 fessor Budd. 



White Pear. Domestica. i. Parkinson Par. Ter. 576. 1629. 2. Langley Pomona 

 96, 97. 1729. 3. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 154. 1S31. 4. Prince Pom. Man. 2: 

 104. 1 83 1. Late White Pear i. 



A variety of ancient and unknown origin. Fruit medium in size, obovate; flesh 

 adhering to the stone. 



White Peascod. Domestica. i, Parkinson Par. Tcr. 576. 1629. 2. Rea Flora 208. 

 1676. Peascod Plum 2. White Pescod i. 



Mentioned by the early writers; similar to the Green and Red Peascod. 

 White Prune. Americana, i. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 228. 1909. 



Grown by H. A. Terry, Crescent, Iowa; not yet introduced. Fruit long-oval, 

 yellow, partly over-spread with red; bloom thick, conspicuous; skin thick, tough, 

 acrid; flesh very firm, meaty, sweetish; good; freestone. 



White Queen. Domestica. i. Ann. Pom. Beige 7:95, PI. 1S59. 2. Mas Le Verger 

 6:101, fig. 1866-73. 3. Hogg Fruit Man. 721. 1884. 4. Mathieu Xom. Pom. 

 454. 1889. 5. Mich. Sta. Bui. 177:42, 43- 1899. 



A^eiie Wcisse Kaiserin 4. Prune Reine Blanche i. Reine Blanche 2, 3. Reine 

 Blanche 2, 4. Reine Blanche de Galopin 4. Weisse Konigin 2. Weisse Konigin 4. 



Raised by M. Galopin, a nurseryman of Liege, Belgium, about 1844; introduced 

 into America by the United States Department of Agriculture about 1890. Tree vigor- 

 ous, upright; fruit medium in size, roundish-ovate, flattened at the ends, yellowish- 

 white, sometimes tinged with red; suture shallow; cavity shallow, wide; flesh greenish- 

 yellow, juicy, aromatic; good; stone small, oval, clinging; late. 

 White Sweet Damson. Insititia. i. Mag. Hort. 6:123. 1840. 



Originated as a seedling in Essex County, New York, sometime previous 

 to 1840. 



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