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Fruit above medium in size, roundish-oblong, purplish-red; clingstone; mid-season. 

 Reche. Americana, i. Kerr Cat. 1894-1901. 



Tree strong and productive; fruit large for the species, globular; dull purplish- 

 red; clingstone. 

 Red Cloud. Americana, i. Kerr Cat. 1897-1900. 



Fruit small, roundish, mottled red; inferior; clingstone. 



Red Gage. Domestica. i. Am. Card. Cal. 588. 1806. 2. N. Y. Agr. Soc. Rpt. 292 

 fig. 1848. 3. Hooper W. Fr. Book 251. 1857. 4. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 443. 

 1889. 5. Guide Prat. 157, 162, 364. 1895. 



Auserlesene Rote Reine-Claude 4. Auserlesene rothe Reineclaude 5. Lombard 3 

 incor. Prince's Red Gage 2, 4, 5. Prince's Rote Reine-Claude 4. Prinzens rothe 

 Reineclaude 5. Red Gage 4, 5. Reine-Claude Rouge Americaine 5. Reine-Claude 

 rouge de Prince 5. Reine-Claude Rouge de Prince 4. 



Red Gage was grown from a seed of Reine Claude in 1790 by William Prince, Flush- 

 ing, Long Island, New York. Fruit of medium size, oval; suture lacking; stem short; 

 dark red in the sun ranging to pale red in the shade; flesh greenish, tender, juicy, sweet; 

 very good; stone small, free; mid-season. 

 Red Gage of Dutchess County. Domestica. i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 942. 1869. 



Originated in Dutchess County, New York. Fruit of medium size, roundish-oval, 

 slightly compressed; suture distinct; cavity large; color yellow overlaid with a light 

 reddish-purple; dots numerous; flesh yellow, juicy; good; clingstone; mid-season. 

 Red Glass. Hortulana mineri X Domestica. i. Vt. Sta. An. Rpt. 14:272. 1901. 

 2. la. Sta. Bui. 114:143. 1910. 



Red Glass originated with Theodore Williams of Benson, Nebraska, as a seedling 

 of Miner pollinated by Quackenboss. Fruit large, oval, red; bloom thick; flesh firm, 

 meaty, tender, sweet; good; mid-season. 



Red Glass Junior. (Hortulana mineri X Domestica) X Domestica. i. Am. Br. Assoc. 

 Rpt. 2:185. 1906. 



A hybrid from Theodore Williams of Benson, Nebraska, from seed of Red Glass 

 crossed with Quackenboss. The variety is hardy and gives promise of value in Nebraska. 

 Red Horse. Americana, i. Kerr Cat. 1897. 



Fruit of medium size, roundish-oblong, dull red; inferior; clingstone. 

 Redick. Americana. Mentioned in la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 228. 1909. 

 Red Magdalene. Domestica. Mentioned in Watkins Cat. 1892. 



Red May. Triflora X Munsoniana. I. Sherman Cat. 1898. 2. Waugh Plum Cult. 

 224. 1901. 



A seedling of Abundance fertilized by Wild Goose from A. L. Bruce 1 , Texas; in- 

 troduced by J. S. Kerr, Sherman, Texas, in 1898. Fruit of medium size, oblong, pointed, 

 deep red; similar to Red June but ten days earlier. 



'A. L. Bruce, whose name appears so frequently in the pages of The Plums of New York as a 

 breeder of native plums, is of Scotch descent. His father, however, came from Illinois to Texas, 

 settling at Basin Springs, Grayson County, in 1845, where he planted the first orchard in that part 

 of Texas. The son, subject of this sketch, was born October 6, 1861, and was educated In the 



