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THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



Jaune Tres Hative Baboud. Domestica. i. Can. Exp. Farm Bui. ad Ser. 3:52. 1900. 



Tree vigorous, productive; fruit below medium, oval; suture shallow ; cavity small; 

 clear yellow; flesh yellow, tender, juicy, sweet, pleasant; good; freestone; very early. 

 Jean Morceau. Domestica. i. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 149. 1831. 



A variety grown at one time in the London Horticultural Society gardens. 

 Jennie Lucas. Angustifolia varians. i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 160, 162. 1881. 2. 

 Waugh Plum Cult. 196. 1901. 3. Ohio Sta. Bui. 162:256, 257. 1905. 



Jennie Lucas is a seedling grown by G. Onderdonk, Mission Valley Nurseries, Vic- 

 toria County, Texas; introduced by the originator in 1875. Fruit of medium size, 

 roundish; cavity shallow; suture a line; dots numerous, large, white; light yellow; 

 skin thin; flesh yellow, soft, sweetish; quality fair; stone large, round, flattened, 

 clinging; mid-season. 



Jerusalem. Domestica. i. Prince Treat. Hort. 27. 1828. 2. Prince Pom. Man. 2:95. 

 1832. 3. Poiteau Pom. Franc. 1.1846. 4. Noisette Man. Comp. Jard. 2:497 

 1860. 5. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 926. 1869. 6. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 433. 

 1889. 7. Lucas Vollst. Hand. Obst. 471. 1894. 8. Guide Prat. 163, 367. 

 1895. 



Blaue Eierpflaume 6, 8. De Bordeaux i, 2, 5. De Jerusalem 4. Jerusalem 6. 

 Oeil de Boeuf i, 2, 4, 5. Oeuil-de-Boeuf 6. Prune de Bordeaux 6. Prune de Jerusalem 3. 

 Prune Violet de Jerusalem 5. Prunier de Jerusalem 2, 5, 6. Violette de Jerusalem 6. 

 Violette Jerusalem 5. Violette Jerusalems pflaume 6. Violette Jerusalemspflaume 7. 

 Wahre blaue Eierpflaume 6, 8. 



The tree and fruit of this variety resemble the German Prune of which it is prob- 

 ably an offspring. Fruit large, oval; suture a line; dark purple; flesh yellowish, 

 prune-like, firm, sweet; good; stone long, flat, free; mid-season. 

 Jessie. Americana, i. U. S. D. A. Rpt. 263. 1892. 2. Waugh Plum Cult. 154. 1901. 



A seedling introduced from the wild by the Martin Nursery Company, Winfield, 

 Kansas, about 1892. Tree productive, vigorous, suckers badly; fruit of medium size, 

 oval; cavity shallow; suture a line; wine-red; flesh yellow, melting, fibrous, slightly 

 subacid; good; clingstone; early. 



Jewell. Munsoniana. i. Cornell Sta. Bui. 38:79. 1892. 2. Wis. Sta. Bui. 87:14. 1901. 

 3. Waugh Plum Cult. 186. 1901. 



A seedling of Wild Goose from H. A. Terry, Crescent, Iowa; first fruited in 1885. 

 Fruit of medium size, round; cavity shallow ; suture indistinct ; red over a yellow ground ; 

 bloom light; dots numerous; skin thin, not adherent to the pulp; flesh yellow, tender; 

 quality fair; clingstone; mid-season. 



Jodoigne Domestica. i. Hogg Fruit Man. 367. 1866. 2. Ibid. 708. 1884. 3. Lucas 

 Vollst. Hand. Obst. 472. 1894. 



Boulouf ?i. Jodoigne Green Gage i, 2. Reine-Claude de Jodoigne i, 2. Reinc- 

 Claude von Jodoigne 3. Royal de Vilvorde i, 2. 



Probably a Reine Claude seedling ; tree large, vigorous; shoots smooth; fruit large, 

 round, inclining to oblate, greenish-yellow, with brownish-red cheek; suture shallow; 

 flesh whitish-yellow, firm, juicy, tender, sweet, rich; mid-season. 



