486 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



pale yellowish-red on the shaded side ; flesh deep yellow, juicy, becoming rich and sweet 

 if allowed to hang; clingstone; mid-season. Listed in the catalog of the American 

 Pomological Society in 1875, but dropped in 1897. 

 Long Violet Damascene. Domestica. i. Oberdieck Deut. Ohst. Sort. 444. 1881. 



Unproductive on dry soil as tested in Jeinsen, Germany. 

 Longworth. Domestica. 1. U. S. D. A. Rpt. ^t)2. 1891. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 74. 1895. 



Said to have originated many years ago with Nicholas Longworth, Cincinnati, 

 Ohio. Resembles Lombard and is better in quality. Fruit of medium size, roundish- 

 oval, purplish-red; flesh yellow, sweet, pleasant; mid-season to late. 

 Lot d'Ente. Domestica. i. Wickson Cal. Fruits 356 fig. 1891. D'Ente i. 



This variety is of the same type if not the same as the Agen. 

 Lottie. Americana mollis, i. Terry Cat. 1900. 2. Can. Exp. Farm.s Rpt. 120. 1904. 

 3. ///. Hart. Soc. Rpt. 424. 1905. Lotta 3. 



Originated with H. A. Terry, Crescent, Iowa, from seed of Van Buren. Fruit 

 large, white or pale yellow; good; freestone. 



Louisa. Americana, i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 930. 1869. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 

 37. 1899. 3. Waugh Plum Cult. 156. 1901. 



Found growing wild in Missouri about i860; introduced by Samuel Miller, Bluff- 

 ton, Missouri. Fruit of medium size, roundish; suture a line; cavity small; stem 

 short; dull red; bloom thick; dots numerous; flesh firm, yellow; quality fair; stone 

 large, flat, clinging; mid-season. 



Louise-Brune. Insititia? i. Mas Pom. Gen. 2:71. 1873. 2. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 

 439. 1889. 



Louise Brune 2. Louisen's Braune Damascene 2. 



Raised by M. de Maraise, a Belgian pomologist. Tree vigorous, productive; fruit 

 round-oval; suture narrow and very shallow; skin purple; bloom thick; flesh yellow- 

 ish-green, firm, rather sweet; good; stone oval, thick, free; type of the Damsons. 

 Louisiana. Triflora X ? i- Cornell Sta. Bui. 139:43. 1897. 2. Waugh Plum Cult. 

 217. 1901. Normand No.i^ 1. 



One of the several seedlings sent out by J. L. Normand, Marksville, Louisiana, 

 who states that it is the offspring of a Triflora variety crossed with a native ; named 

 by Bailey in 1897. Tree spreading, weak and slender in habit; fruit of medium size, 

 heart-shaped; suture faint; cavity shallow; greenish with dull blush; dots many, 

 whitish; flesh yellow, fibrous, sprightly subacid; quality fair; clingstone; fruit drops 

 before ripe 

 Lovett. Domestica. i. Card. Mon. 29:47. 1887. 



A seedling of Reine Claude from York County, Pennsylvania, about 1867. Tree 

 very vigorous and productive ; fruit very large, roundish; suture slight; cavity shallow; 

 dark red; dots minute, yellow; flesh yellow, firm, sweet; semi-clinging; very early. 

 Lovett. Triflora. i. Lovett Cat. 1898. Fourth of July i. 



A chance seedling from the Lovett homestead in Pennsylvania; introduced in 

 1898 by J T. Lovett, Little Silver, New Jersey. Fruit of medium size, roundish; suture 



