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Plums and Plum Culture 



Fruit Trees of America, ist ed. [1845] p. 292). Fruit medium 

 to large, spherical, bright golden yellow, with many conspicu- 

 ous whitish dots, also with some fine black dots, the white dots 

 appearing to be beneath the skin, suture line hardly visible, skin 

 thin but tough; flesh medium firm, yellow; stone small, cling; 

 quality good. 



Crimson Beauty. — "Same type as Golden Beauty, ripening 

 two weeks earlier, the tree somewhat more vigorous. Crimson 

 Beauty is very similar to Wayland and Erby September, and 

 [ am not prepared \o say yet that it is any better." — J. S. Kerr, 

 Texas. 



CUMBERLAND 



"Tree much more vigorous, with heavier twigs and larger 

 foliage than Golden Beauty." — J. W. Kerr, Maryland. 



Cumberland. — Fruit slightly ovate or oblong, of large 

 size, bright golden yellow, with many conspicuous whitish dots 

 and sometimes with small black dots also ; bloom white ; skin 

 thick and firm; flesh rather firm and meaty; stone medium 

 large, cling; quality good; tree a vigorous grower, bark of 

 young twigs yellowish, similar to Golden Beauty and Captain ; 

 quite productive. Introduced by Philip Schley, who gathered 

 the pits from trees growing in the Cumberland mountains in 

 Tennessee in 1864. There were a number of seedlings pro- 

 duced, but Cumberland, named by P. J. Berckmans, was the 

 only one of value. Favorably reported from Louisiana. 



