190 Plums and Plum Culture 



medium; suture a faint line; color bright red; dots many, 

 minute, distinct ; bloom bluish ; skin thin ; flesh soft, yellow ; 

 stone small, oval, thickened, cling; quality poor; season 

 medium. 



Of no value. Origin unknown. 



Tucker. — Fruit pyriform ; size medium to large ; color 

 light purplish-red, over greenish-yellow ; dots many, small, 

 gray ; skin thick, tender ; flesh yellow, tender ; stone large, 

 cling; flavor mild; quality good; season medium to late. 



Originated with Ezra W. Tucker, Williamsfield, Illinois. 

 Fruited first in 1894. 



Van Houten. — An unidentified seedling grown by H. A. 

 Terry, Iowa, probably belongs here ; 1895. 



Whitaker. — Fruit oval ; size medium to large ; cavity 

 shallow ; stem medium ; suture a line ; color bright red ; dots 

 many, white, easily seen; bloom thin, bluish; skin thin but 

 firm ; flesh yellow, moderately firm ; stone small, long oval, 

 pointed, flat, cling, exactly like Wildgoose ; flavor sweet and 

 good ; quality good ; season of Wildgoose. 



Seedling of Wildgoose; originated under cultivation with 

 J. T. Whitaker, Texas. Resembles the parent closely, but tree 

 is of more open growth and blossoms later. A first-rate 

 variety. 



Wildgoose. — Fruit oval ; size medium to large ; cavity 

 shallow ; stem medium long ; suture a line ; color bright clear 

 red ; dots many, white, conspicuous ; bloom thin, light bluish ; 

 skin thin, but rather tough ; stone small to medium, oval, 

 pointed, cling; flavor sweet; quality fair to good; season 

 early. 



Tree a healthy, vigorous spreading grower, blooming 

 medium early, in large snowy banks, which present a fine 

 appearance. This variety, more noticeably than most others, 

 requires cross-pollination. The quality is not extra, but on 

 account of its earliness, productiveness, fine color and good 

 shipping quality, this has proved a very profitable plum. There 

 are many other varieties just as good or better, though less 

 well known and not so generally planted. This is the first 

 native plum to be generally propagated and planted. 



Bailey gives the following history of the variety : "The 

 Wildgoose was first brought to notice by James Harvey of 

 Columbia, Tennessee. Some time before 1850 a man shot a 

 wild goose near Columbia, and on the spot where the carcass 

 was thrown this plum came up the following spring. It was 

 introduced about 1850 by the late J. S. Downer of Fairview, 

 Kentucky." 



Wildgoose. Yellow. — Yellow Wildgoose is said to have 

 been introduced by R. Bates, Jackson, South Carolina, who 



