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The Wildgoose Group 



UR knowledge of the Wildgoose 

 group dates from 1892. In that 

 year Professor Bailey described 

 Primus hortulana* as a species 

 and included in it these plums 

 and those now put into the 

 Wayland group. Later in the 

 year he published a full horti- 

 cultural account of these 

 plums t which for the first time brought them promi- 

 nently to the attention of the pomological world. 



The description of the group given at that time 

 was as follows: "This, perhaps the most important 

 group of native plums, includes varieties character- 



*L. H. Bailey. Garden and Forest, 5:90. 1892. 

 fL. H. Bailey. The Cultivated Native Plums and Cherries, Cornell 

 Experiment Station Bulletin 38:16. 1892. 



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