158 Plums and Plum Culture 



MOLLIE. A variety originating with Theodore Williams, 

 Benson, Nebraska. Not yet generally introduced and un- 

 known to me. 



MONON. Listed by J. W. Kerr, Denton, Maryland, but 

 otherwise unknown to me. 



MOON. Described as follows by J. W. Kerr, Maryland: 

 "Above medium to large, round oblong, purplish, cling, Au- 

 gust 5-15 (in Maryland). Will be dropped here." I am un- 

 acquainted with the variety. 



MUNCY. "Large, round oblong, dark purplish, cling; 

 August i-io (in Maryland). Will be dropped." Catalog of 

 J. W. Kerr, Maryland. 



MUSSEY. "Very large, round oblong, yellow mottled with 

 red, skin medium thick ; flesh firm and excellent ; semi-cling ; 

 leaves medium to large, pubescent, glands small or none; very 

 late." Bailey. 



Wild, from Kansas. Introduced by Abner Allen. 



NELLIE. Fruit oblate; size medium to large; cavity 

 almost obsolete; stem medium; suture a faint line; apex 

 sometimes slightly depressed ; color light pinkish ; dots 

 many, indistinct ; bloom blue : skin thick ; flesh firm, yellow ; 

 stone medium size, round, compressed, partly free; quality 

 good ; medium to late. 



NELLIE BLANCHE. "Parentage unknown. Produced first 

 crop in 1897. So far as tested, this is one of the best varieties 

 in cultivation. Tree a strong, upright grower, and so enor- 

 mously productive that the tree is scarcely able to sustain its 

 crop of fruit. Fruit large, oblong, dark mottled red, good 

 quality." From the advertisement of the originator, H. A. 

 Terry, Iowa. 



NEVERFAIL. "Fruit large, round, red, very beautiful, 

 quality fine ; ripe about with De Soto. Tree vigorous growth, 

 slightly spreading. Purchased of an eastern nurseryman for 

 Wolf, not true to name; introduced by J. S. Haag, Hosper, 

 Sioux county, Iowa." Craig. 



NEWTON EGG. Fruit oval : size small : cavity shallow ; 

 suture a line ; color dull red ; dots many, yellow ; bloom blue ; 

 skin thick, tough: flesh yellow; stone large, long, oval, flat- 

 tened, partially free ; quality fair to good : season of Wolf and 

 De Sotp. 



Originated with Charles Luedloff, Cologne, Minnesota. 



NEW ULM. Fruit oval; size large; cavity shallow; stem 

 stout; suture a line; apex slightly pointed; color orange 

 heavily blushed with crimson ; dots many, minute, white ; 

 bloom blue; skin tough; flesh yellow; stone medium size, 



