41 8 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



Chester County Prune. Domestica. i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 903. 1869. 



From Chester County, Pennsylvania. Tree vigorous; branches slender; fruit of 

 medium size, oval; suture faint; cavity small; stem long, slender; black with thick 

 bloom; flesh greenish, sweet; good; freestone; mid-season. 

 Chestnut. Domestica. i. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 144. 1831. 



Fruit purple, oblong; size and quality medium; clingstone; a table plum. 

 Chicrigland. Species? i. Vt. Sta. Bui. 67:g. 1898. 2. Vt. Sta. An. Rpt. i4:2'jo. 1901. 



Grown by T. V. Munson, from seed of a plum grown by F. T. Ramsey, Lampasas 

 County, Texas. Tree vigorous; branches zigzag, drooping; fruit oval, small; cavity 

 of medium depth, rounded; suture faint; dull red over yellow; surface a trifle fuzzy; 

 dots many; bloom heavy; skin thin, tender, not astringent; flesh soft, yellow, mild 

 acid, aromatic; quality fair; stone clinging. 

 Chinook. Nigra? i. Can. Exp. Farms Rpt. 426. 1900. 



A seedling raised at the Experimental Farm, Indian Head, Northwest Territory, 

 Canada. Fruit of medium size, red; early. 



Chippewa. Americana, i. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 85. 1890. 2. Cornell Sta. Bui. 38:37. 

 1892. 3. la. Sta. Bui. 31:346. 1895. Chippeway 2. 



A dwarf variety from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, often bearing when only two 

 feet in height. Fruit small, deep red; skin medium thick; flesh firm, sweet; stone 

 free, small, pointed, rough; worthless. 



Choptank. Munsoniana. i. Bailey Ann. Hort. 133. 1893. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 

 40. 1899. 3. Ohio Sta. Bui. 113:154. 1899. 4. Waugh Plum Cult. 184. 1901. 



A seedling of Wild Goose grown by J. W. Kerr, Denton, Maryland; introduced in 

 1893; listed in the American Pomological Society catalog of fruits in 1899. Tree vigor- 

 ous, prolific and hardy; foliage large, ornamental; fruit above medium to large, variable 

 in shape, roundish-oblong to oval; cavity shallow; stem long; suture distinct ; skin thin, 

 tough; bright red; dots numerous, light colored; bloom thin; flesh yellow, firm, rather 

 acid but of good quality; stone medium in size, oval, flattened, clinging; medium early. 

 Christian. Domestica. i. Parkinson Par. Ter. 576. 1629. 2. Rea Flora 209. 1676. 



Nutmeg I, 2. 



Shrubby in growth; fruit small, dark red; late; obsolete. 

 Christie. Americana, i. la. Sta. Bui. 46:264. 1900. 2. Waugh Plum Cult. 145. 1901. 



Taken from the woods by W. Christie, Villisca, Iowa, in 1887. Fruit round, trun- 

 cate, medium in size; apex flattened; cavity wide; suture lacking; yellow, covered 

 with red; bloom light; skin thick; flesh yellow, melting, flavor sweet, luscious; very 

 good; stone circular, thick, semi-clinging. 

 Churchill. Domestica. i. N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt. 12:611. 1893. 



A seedling found by G. W. Churchill on the shores of Lake Cayuga. Fruit large, 

 blue; quality poor; not valuable. 



Chypre. Domestica. i. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:82. 1768. 2. Kraft Pom. Aust. 

 2:37, Tab. 187 fig. 2. 1796. 3. Prince Pom. Man. 2:96. 1832. 4. Hogg Fruit 

 Man. 690. 1884. 



