556 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



Truro. Americana X Hortulana mineri. i. U. S.D.A. Pom. Rpt. 47. 1895. 2. Waugh 

 Plum Cult. 164. 1 90 1. 



From Ezra W. Tucker, Williamsfield, Illinois, about 1895. A seedling of Weaver 

 crossed with Miner. Tree upright, hardy; fruit large, oblong; suture shallow; cavity- 

 small, shallow; red with many, small, russet dots; flesh yellowish with yellow veins, 

 tender, melting, juicy, mild subacid; very good; stone medium, oval, clinging; late. 

 Tucker. Species? 1. U. S. D. A. Pom. Rpt. 26. 1894. 



Another seedling from Ezra W. Tucker; said to be grown from seed taken from a 

 cluster of trees containing Weaver, Miner, Wild Goose and two prune trees; first fruited 

 in 1894. Tree resembles Wild Goose; fruit medium to large, pyriform, greenish-yellow, 

 overspread with light purplish-red; dots many, small; skin thick, tender, almost sweet; 

 very good; stone large, angular, clinging; mid-season. 

 Tudor. Munsoniana? i. Tex. Sta. Bui. 32:481. 1894. 



Tested at the Texas Experiment Station. Tree vigorous and productive; fruit 

 above medium size, oblong, light red; skin very thin; flesh acid unless fully ripe. 

 Turkey. Domestica. i. Parkinson Par. T^r. 576, 577. 1629. 2. Rea F/ora 208. 1676. 

 3. Ray Hist. Plant. 2:1529. 1688. 4. Langley Pomona 95, 97, PI. XXV fig. V. 

 1729. 5. Abercrombie Gard. Ass't 13. 1786. 



Turkie i. Turky 2. Turkey Plumb 4. 



From the brief descriptions of the Seventeenth Century writers, it appears that 

 Turkey was a large blue plum of the German Prune type but the variety has either long 

 since been buried under the hosts of new sorts that have been developed or a new name 

 has been given it. 



Turkish Prune. Domestica. i. Land. Hart. Soc. Cat. 152. 1831. 2. R. G. Chase Cat. 

 3. Rice Bros. Cat. 1908. Quetsche Turkish 1. 



The name "Turkish Prune," although sometimes applied to the Italian Prune 



does not seem to be connected with any particular variety. It may be a synonym of 



the "Jerusalem Prune" or it may have developed, as a corruption of the still older 



"Turkey" plum mentioned by Parkinson and other writers in the Seventeenth Century. 



Twice Bearing. Domestica. i. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:113. 1768. 2. Prince Pom. 



Man. 2:103. 1832. 3. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 144. 1831. 4. Poiteau Pom. 



Franc. 1:1846. 5. Mas Le Verger 6:79. 1866-73. 6. Nicholson Diet. Gard. 



3:235. 7. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 455. 1889. 



Bifere 2, 7. Bifere 5. Bon deux fois I'anl 2. Bonne deux fois Van 3. De Deux 

 Saison 5. Deux fois Van 2. P. biferum 6. Prune bifere 2. Prune de Deux Saisons 2,7. 

 Prune qui fructifie deux fois Van 5, 7. Prunier bifere 4. Prunier Fleurissantet Pous- 

 sant Deux Fois $,"]. Prunier qui fructifie deux fois par an \, 2. Prunus bif era i . Zweimal 

 Bluhende und Zweimal Tragende Bunte Pflaume 5, 7. Zweimal Tragende 7. 



A Domestica of ancient origin grown more as a curiosity and an ornamental than 

 for utility. Fruit long, almost olive-form; suture faint; skin reddish-yellow, heavily 

 tinged with brown; bloom heavy; flesh coarse, yellow, green beneath the suture, juice 

 insipid; stone almost smooth, acutely pointed, clinging. The first crop is borne the 

 beginning of August; the second very late; both worthless. 



