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one-half inch long, pubescent, adhering to the fruit; skin of medium thickness and 

 toughness, slightly astringent, adhering somewhat; flesh greenish-yellow, juicy and 

 fibrous, firm, sour or agreeably tart late in the season; stone clinging, three-quarters 

 inch by one-half inch in size, irregularly oval or ovate, slightly necked at the base, acute 

 at the apex, with pitted surfaces; ventral suture swollen, blunt; dorsal suture acute 

 or partially furrowed. 



BLACKMAN 



Prunus Jwrtulana X Primus persica 

 I. Gara. Man. 24:82. 1882. 2. Ibid, 29:45, 302. 1887. 3. Cornell Sta. Bid. 38:77. 1892. 



Blackman is supposed to be a hybrid between the Wild Goose plum 

 and a peach. According to Bailey, a Mrs. Charity Clark secured plum pits 

 from an orchard of Wild Goose and Washington plums in Rutherford 

 County, Tennessee, about 1865 and gave them to Dr. Blackman of Nash- 

 ville of that State. One of the seedlings appeared promising and was 

 disseminated by a local nurseryman under the name Blackman. A rival 

 nurseryman in attempting to procure cions of this variety inadvertently 

 cut them from an adjacent tree, a barren seedling from the same lot of 

 seed. Unfortunately the spurious Blackman received a wide distribution 

 while the true variety remained practically unknown. Afterwards in order 

 to avoid confusion the original Blackman was rechristened Charity Clark 

 under which name it is now known. The tree of the second Blackman 

 is strong and vigorous but rarely produces its plum-like fruit. The foliage 

 is about midway in character between the plum and peach; the fruit-buds 

 are formed abundantly but seldom open. From a horticultural stand- 

 point, the variety is of course worthless but the hybrid, one of the first of 

 its kind, is interesting and worth recording. 



BLEEKER 



Prunus domestica 



i. Prince Pom. Man. 25. 1828. 2. Kenrick Am. Orch. 255. 1832. 3. Manning Book of 

 Fruits 104. 1838. 4. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 273. 1843. 5- Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 54. 1852. 

 6. Thompson Card. Ass't 515. 1859. 7. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 899. 1869. 8. Mas Le Verger 

 6:21. 1866-1873. 9. Hogg Fruit Man. 686. 1884. ro. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 423. 1889. n. 

 Guide Prat. 158, 364. 1895. 12. Waugh Plum Cult. 96. 1901. 



Bleecker's n. Bleecker's German Gage i. Bleecker's German Gage 2. Bleecker's Gage 2, 4. 

 S, 6, 7. Bleecker's Gage 9, 10, n, 12. Bleeker's Gage 3. Bicker's Gage 6. Bleecker's Yellow 7, 

 Bleeker's 10. Bleecker's Yellow Gage 7, 8, n. Bleecker's Gage 8. Bleeker's Yellow 9. Bleeker's 

 Gelbe Zwetsche n. Bleeker's Gelbe Zwetsche 10. Bleeker's Yellow Gage 9, 10. Bleeker's Gelbe 

 Reine-Claude 10. Bleeker's Gelbe Renklode u. Bleeker's Yellow 10. German Gage 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, n. 

 Jaune de Bleeker 10, n. Reine-Claude de Bleeker 10. Reine-Claude de Bleecker 8, n. 



