49© THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



Large Long Blue I. Large Long Blue 2, ^. Manning's Long Blue 2, 3. Manning's 

 Long Blue 3. Mannings Long Blue Prune 3. Manning's Long Blue Prune 2. Man- 

 ning's Prune 3. 



Received by Robert Manning from Landreth's Nursery, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 

 vania, without a name; probably a seedling of the German Prune. Tree vigorous; 

 fruit large, long-oval; suture obscure; cavity small; dark purple; bloom thick; flesh 

 greenish-yellow, firm, juicy, sweet, sprightly, pleasant; good; stone long, pointed, 

 free; mid-season; ripening period long. 

 Marais des Cygne. Americana, i. Kerr Cat. 5. 1900. 



Introduced by J. W. Kerr in 1900. Tree vigorous and productive; fruit of medium 

 size, roundish, purplish-red; good; clingstone; subject to rot; mid-season. 

 Marange. Species? i. Mathieu A^ow. Pow. 440. 1889. 2. Guide Prat, i^b, T,$g. 1895. 



Petit-Monsieur ? i, 2. 



Tree small, very productive; fruit small, round, reddish-violet; skin unusually 

 free; flesh yellow; very good for its season; very early. 



Marble. Hortulana mineri X Hortulana. i. Vt. Sta. An. Rpt. 12:225. 1899. 2. Waugh 

 Plum Cult. 217. 1 90 1. Fourth of July i. 



Grown by A. L. Bruce of Texas, who states that it is a cross between Weaver and 

 Crimson Beauty, but Waugh considers Mr. Bruce's Weaver to be Miner. Fruit small, 

 heart-shaped; cavity medium deep; suture shallow; dark wine-red; skin tough; flesh 

 yellow, sweet, rich; good; stone small, clinging. 

 Marble. Species? i. Minn. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 412. 1899. 



Originated in Brown County, Minnesota; tree vigorous and productive; fruit 

 small, round, mottled red; good; mid-season; subject to rot. 

 Marbled-Plum. Domestica. i. Rea i^'Zora 207. 1676. 2. 'R.a.y Hist. Plant. 1^21). 1688. 



Marble Plum 2. 



Fruit mottled yellow and red at full maturity becoming a uniform red; flesh firm; 

 good. 



Marcellus. Americana mollis, i. Kerr Cat. 9. 1898. 2. S. Dak. Sta. Bui. 93:24, 

 50, 51 fig. 1905. 3. Ohio Sta. Bui. 162:256, 257. 1905. 



Grown by H. A. Terry of Crescent, Iowa from seed of Van Buren; first fruited in 

 1893. Tree vigorous, upright-spreading; fruit of medium size, roundish; cavity small; 

 suture lacking; light red; bloom light; flesh yellow; quality fair; clingstone; mid- 

 season. 



Marcus. Americana, i. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 333. 1894. 2. Wis. Sta. Bui. 63:47. 

 1897. 3. 5. Dak. Sta. Bui. 93:24, 50 fig. 1905. 



Originated with M. E. Hinckley, Marcus, Iowa, from seed gathered from a grove 

 of wild plums on the Little Sioux River in 1870. Tree vigorous, upright; fruit large, 

 round, dark red, resembling Miner; flesh firm, meaty; good; early. 

 Mardy. Domestica. i. Ohio Hort. Soc. Rpt. 9. 1890. 



A seedling from West Virginia grown by a Mr. Mardy. Fruit large, oval, red. 

 Margate. Domestica. i. Parkinson Par. Ter. 578. 1629. 



Parkinson says of it " the worst of a hundred." 



