THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 399 



Banker's Gage. Domestica. i. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. i4'j. 1831. 2. Kenrick. Am. Orch. 

 202. 1835. 



Originated in New York. Fruit large; flavor good; adapted to drying. 

 Bant Spate Reine Claude. Domestica. Mentioned in Mathieu Nom. Pom. 422. 1889. 



Bani's Late Green Gage. 

 Baraboo. Americana, i. Wis. Sta. Bui. 63:28. 1897. 2. la. Sta. Bui. 46:262. 1900. 



Found wild near Baraboo, Wisconsin, about i860 and introduced by William 

 Toole of the same place in 1897. Tree vigorous, spreading, symmetrical ; fruit of medium 

 size, round, dull yellow, overlaid with red; flesh firm, mild, sweet; quality fair; mid- 

 season; drops badly and is a poor keeper. 

 Barbary. Domestica. i. Parkinson Par. Ter. 576. 1629. 2. Rea Flora 207. 1676. 



Batberry 2. 



A large, egg-shaped, early, productive, black plum. 

 Barkhausen Violette Reine Claude. Domestica. Mentioned in Mathieu Nom. Pom. 



422. 1889. 

 Barkley. Americana? i. Letter from Kerr. Teeter i. 



From Pennsylvania; fruit medium in size, green, blushed with red; good. 

 Bamsback. Americana, i. Wis. Sta. Bui. 87:11. 1901. 2. S. Dak. Sta. Bui. gy.^. 1905. 



Barnsheck 2. 



Originated at Vermilion, South Dakota. Fruit large, roundish; suture a line; 

 yellowish overspread with light red ; sparsely dotted; heavy bloom; skin medium thick, 

 astringent until fully ripe ; flesh pale yellow or reddish, juicy, sweet ; good; stone nearly 

 free; mid-season. 



Baronne Helen Trauttenberg. Domestica. i. Mathieu Nom. Pom,. 422. 1889. 2. 

 Guide Prat. 163, 352. 1895. 



A variety said to resemble Italian Prune. 

 Basaricatta. Domestica. i. Gallesio Pom. Ital. 2:P1. 1839. Collo-Torto i. 



An Italian variety described by Gallesio in his Pomona Italiana. Fruit long, prune- 

 shaped, necked; skin golden-yellow; flesh yellow, firm, sweet and agreeable; a good 

 shipper. 

 Bastle. Species? i. Tex. Sta. Bui. 32:490. 1899. 



Reported as very weak in growth and as having failed to produce fruit. 

 Batchelor Damson. Insititia. i. N. Y. Sta. Rpt. 12:611. 1893. 



Received for testing at the New York Experiment Station. 

 Bazalicza. Domestica. i. Mas Le Verger 6:139. 1866-73. 2. Oberdieck Deut. Obst. 

 Sort. 441. 1881. 3. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 422. 1889. 4. Can. Exp. Farms Rpt. 

 402. 1898. 5. Can. Exp. Farm Bui. 2d Ser., 3:51. 1900. 



Quetsche de Bazalicza i. Bazalicza Zwetsche i. Bazalicza Zwetsche 2, 3. Bazal- 

 licza's Grosse Blaue Zwetsche 3. Quetsche de Bazalicza 3. Bazalicza's Prune 4. Bazal- 

 icza Damson 5. 



Raised by Liegel of Braunau, Germany, from seed of Red Magnum Bonum. Tree 

 vigorous, productive; fruit above medium size, oblong-oval; suture shallow, halves 

 usually unequal; skin free; dark purple; bloom thin; flesh yellow, sweet; excellent; 

 clingstone; early. 



