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Sirocco. Triflora X ? i. U. S. D. A. Pom. Rpt. 47. 1895. 2. Vt. Sta. Bui. 67:19. 1895. 



J. S. Breece, of Fayetteville, North Carolina grew this variety as a cross between 

 Abundance and Marianna. Fruit of medium size, roundish-oval; cavity small; suture 

 a line; coppery-red with streaks of yellow; dots minute, russet; flesh reddish near 

 the skin but yellow towards the stone, juicy; good. 

 Sisson. Subcordata kellogii. i. Bailey Ev. Nat. Fruits 216, 217. 1898. 



Fruit larger than the wild Subcordata; yellow or red; flesh soft and palatable. 

 See the discussion of Prunus subcordata, page 74. 

 Sixby. Americana, i. Wis. Sta. Bui. 87:15. 1901. 



Sent out by Edson Gaylord, Nora Springs, Iowa. Fruit small; suture distinct; 

 bright red with conspicuous dots; skin adherent; flesh deep yellow tinged with red, 

 crisp, rich; stone oval. 



Six Weeks. Triflora X Angustifolia varians? i. Kerr Cert. 10. 1901-2. 2. Tex. Nur. Cat. 

 8. 1907. 3. Tex. Dept. Agr. Bui. 12:102. 1910. Early Six Weeks. 



Grown from seed of Abundance crossed with an early " Chicasaw;" named and 

 introduced by J. S. Kerr of Texas. Tree vigorous, upright, rapid in growth, resembles 

 the native variety more than Triflora; fruit large, oblong, yellow tinged red; early. 

 Skuya. Triflora X Americana, i. 5. Dak. Sta. Bui. 108. 1908. 



A cross between De Soto and Red June made by Hansen of the South Dakota 

 Experiment Station resulted in eight seedlings of which the above was the first to fruit. 

 Fruit large, dark, dull red and yellow, sweet; good; stone small. 

 Sloe. Americana, i. Kerr Cat. 1894-1900. 2. Wis. Sta. Bui. 63:59. 1897. 



Sloe is a small native variety that has been given the common name of the wild 

 European plum. (See the following name.) Fruit small, roundish-oblong; skin thick, 

 dark red; clingstone; mid-season. The name is also applied in one locality or another 

 to nearly all of the American species of plums as they grow wild. 

 Sloe. Spinosa. i. Parkinson Par. Ter. 576. 1629. 2. Ray Hist. Plant. 1529. 1688. 

 3. Knoop Fructologie 2:63. 1771. 4. Prince Pom. Man. 2:106. 1832. 



Blackthorn 4. Black Prunella 2. Common Sloe 4. Epine noire 4. Petit prunallier 4. 

 Pruneola i. Prunelle 3. Prune Sauvage 3. Prunus silvestris 3. Prunus spinosa, 

 foliis lanceolatis 3. Prunelier 4. Prunus spinosa 4. Prunier epineux 4. Prunallier 4. 

 Slee-Pruim 3. White Prunella 2. White Blossomed Sloe 4. 



See Prunus spinosa. 

 Small Green Drying. Domestica. i. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 153. 1831. 



A variety under test in the garden of the London Horticultural Society. 

 Small White Damson. Insititia. I. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:81. 1768. 2. Kraft 

 Pom. Aust. 2:44, Tab. 198 fig. i. 1796. 3. Floy-Lindley Guide Orch. Card. 

 300. 1846. 4. Noisette Man. Comp. Jard. 2:496. 1860. 5. Mas Le Verger 

 6:127. 1866-73. 6. Hogg Fruit Man. 726. 1884. 7. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 

 427. 1889. 



Damas blanc petit 6, 7. Damascenen Mirabelle 7. Die Kleine Weisse Damascener- 

 pflaume 2. Kleine Weisse Damascene 7. Klein Weisse Damassener Pftaume 5. Petit 



