490 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



Large Long Blue i. Large Long Blue 2,3. Manning's Long Blue 2,3. Manning's 

 Long Blue 3. Mannings Long Blue Prune 3. Manning's Long Blue Prune 2. Man- 

 ning's Prune 3. 



Received by Robert Manning from Landreth's Nursery, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 

 vania, without a name; probably a seedling of the German Prune. Tree vigorous; 

 fruit large, long-oval; suture obscure; cavity small; dark purple; bloom thick; flesh 

 greenish-yellow, firm, juicy, sweet, sprightly, pleasant; good; stone long, pointed, 

 free; mid-season; ripening period long. 

 Marais des Cygne. Americana, i. Kerr Cat. 5. 1900. 



Introduced by J. W. Kerr in 1900. Tree vigorous and productive; fruit of medium 

 size, roundish, purplish-red; good; clingstone; subject to rot; mid-season. 

 Marange. Species? I. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 440. 1889. 2. Guide Prat. 156, 359. 1895. 



Petit-Monsieur ? i, 2. 



Tree small, very productive; fruit small, round, reddish-violet; skin unusually 

 free; flesh yellow; very good for its season; very early. 



Marble. Hortulana mineri X Hortulana. i. Vt. Sta. An. Rpt. 12:225. 1899. 2. Waugh 

 Plum Cult. 217. 1901. Fourth of July i. 



Grown by A. L. Bruce of Texas, who states that it is a cross between Weaver and 

 Crimson Beauty, but Waugh considers Mr. Bruce's Weaver to be Miner. Fruit small, 

 heart-shaped; cavity medium deep; suture shallow; dark wine-red; skin tough; flesh 

 yellow, sweet, rich; good; stone small, clinging. 

 Marble. Species? i. Minn. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 412. 1899. 



Originated in Brown County, Minnesota; tree vigorous and productive; fruit 

 small, round, mottled red; good; mid-season; subject to rot. 

 Marbled-Plum. Domestica. i. Rea Flora 207. 1676. 2. Ray Hist. Plant. 1529. 1688. 



Marble Plum 2. 



Fruit mottled yellow and red at full maturity becoming a uniform red; flesh firm; 

 good. 



Marcellus. Americana mollis. i. Kerr Cat. 9. 1898. 2. S. Dak. Sta. Bui. 93:24, 

 50, 51 fig. 1905. 3. Ohio Sta. Bui. 162:256, 257. 1905. 



Grown by H. A. Terry of Crescent, Iowa from seed of Van Buren; first fruited in 

 1893. Tree vigorous, upright-spreading; fruit of medium size, roundish; cavity small; 

 suture lacking; light red; bloom light; flesh yellow; quality fair; clingstone; mid- 

 season. 



Marcus. Americana, i. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 333. 1894. 2. Wis. Sta. Bui. 63:47. 

 1897. 3. S. Dak. Sta. Bui. 93:24, 50 fig. 1905. 



Originated with M. E. Hinckley, Marcus, Iowa, from seed gathered from a grove 

 of wild plums on the Little Sioux River in 1870. Tree vigorous, upright; fruit large, 

 round, dark red, resembling Miner; flesh firm, meaty; good; early. 

 Mardy. Domestica. i. Ohio Hort. Soc. Rpt. 9. 1890. 



A seedling from West Virginia grown by a Mr. Mardy. Fruit large, oval, red. 

 Margate. Domestica. i. Parkinson Par. Ter. 578. 1629. 



Parkinson says of it " the worst of a hundred." 



