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Produced in the garden of Isaac Denniston, Albany, New York, about 1835. Fruit 

 below medium in size, oval with a slight neck, greenish-yellow with reddish spots on 

 the sunny side; flesh yellow, juicy, rich, sweet; good; stone free, small, pointed; mid- 

 season; tree hardy; productive. 

 Alberta. Nigra ? i. Can. Exp. Farms Rpt. 426. 1900. 



A seedling raised at Indian Head Experimental Farm, Northwest Territory, Canada. 

 Fruit large; fairly productive; early. 

 Alexander. Species ? i. ///. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 135. 1903. 2. Ibid. 424. 1905. 



Alexander's Late 2. 



Mentioned as a late native plum; productive; resistant to rot; clingstone. 

 Alibuchari. Domestica. i. Mag. Hort. 9:163. 1843. 2. Mclntosh Bk. Card. 2 1534. 1855. 



An old European prune. Size medium, oval, purple; fair in quality; freestone; 

 shrivels on the tree; hardy; productive. 

 Alice. Americana mollis. i. Terry Cat. 1900. 



Originated by H. A. Terry, Crescent, Iowa, from seed of Van Buren. "Tree a fine 

 upright grower, with large, light red fruit of best quality." 

 Allen. Species ? i. Cornell Sta. Bui. 38:78. 1892. Allen's Yellow i. 



An obsolete variety from Kansas of medium size, round, yellow and red; skin 

 thick; clingstone. 



Allfruit. Simonii X Triflora. i. Vt. Sta. Bui. 67:5. 1898. 2. Waugh Plum Cult. 

 202. 1901. 



Grown by Luther Burbank; named in 1898. Described by Waugh as follows: 

 "Fruit oblate, medium size; cavity deep, rounded; stem short; suture rather shallow; 

 color pale red with many large and small yellowish dots and a thin white bloom; skin 

 medium thick; flesh medium firm, bright yellow; flavor sweet and rich, fragrant; good 

 to best; stone medium to large, slightly flattened, semi-cling; leaf large, oval, pointed, 

 rather finely double crenulate and minutely glandular, rather thick, glistens as if var- 

 nished; petiole short, glandular." 

 Allie. Nigra ? i. Can. Exp. Farms Rpt. 426. 1900. 



A seedling raised at Indian Head Experimental Farm, Northwest Territory, Canada. 

 Tree productive; fruit of medium size; skin red; flavor good; early. 

 Aloe. Domestica. i. Montreal Hort. Soc. Rpt. 55. 1878. 



Mentioned as an old Scottish variety; is not hardy at Montreal, Canada. 

 Alois Reine Claude. Domestica. Mentioned in Mathieu Nom. Pom. 420. 1889. 



Alois' Reine-Claude. Reine-Claude d' Alois. Reine-Claude Aloise. 

 Aloo Bokhara. Domestica ? i. Horticulturist 3:144. 1848. 



A variety noted by Sir Alexander Burnes, while traveling in Bokhara, as having a 

 sweet kernel. He states that the stone, when ripe, can be seen through the skin. 

 Alpha. Maritima. i. Kerr Cat. 1899. 2. Ohio Sta. Bui. 162:254, 255. 1905. 



A variety selected from wild trees by E. W. Winsor of New Jersey and sent to J. W. 

 Kerr, Denton, Maryland, who introduced it in 1899. Very small, roundish, purple; 

 no cavity nor suture; flesh greenish-yellow; poor; freestone; early; tree small, com- 

 pact, very productive. 



