178 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 

 I am not prepared to 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. 



