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White Wheat. Insititia. i. Parkinson Par. Ter. 576. 1629. 2. Knoop Fructologie 

 2:63. 1 77 1. Spilling Jaune-simple 2. White Wheate i. 



A yellow variety of the Wheat plum of Europe. Fruit small, oval, yellow; fairquality. 



White Virginal. Domestica. i. Prince Pom. Man. 2:73. 1831. 2. Poiteau Pom. 



Franc, i. 1846. 3. U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt. 306. 1854. 4. Bridgeman Gard. Ass't 



130. 1857. 5. Mas Le Verger 6:129. 1866-73. 6. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 454. 



1889. 7. Guide Prat. 158, 367. 1895. 



Altesse Blanche'^ 6, 7. Double Beurre Witte? 6, 7. Peach 3. Pricoce 7. Prune 

 Precocel 6. Prune Virginale 2. Virginal a gros fruit blanc 1. Virginal blanc i. Vir- 

 ginale 4. Virginale a Fruit Blanc 6, 7. Virginale a gros fruit blanc 5, 6, 7. Virginal 

 Blanche 6. Virginale blanche 3, 5, 7. Virgin 6. White Virginal 4. W/it'te Virginale 6. 

 Weisse Jungfernpflaume 6. Weisse Jungfernpflaume 5, 7. 



A variety confused by Downing with the Red Virginal. Fruit medium in size, 

 roundish-oblate; suture a line; greenish-yellow; bloom heavy; flesh pale greenish, juicy, 

 melting, sweet, pleasant; good; clingstone; mid-season. 

 Whyte. Nigra, i. Can. Exp. Farm. Bui. 2nd Ser. 3:57. 1900. 2. Ibid. 43:39. 1903. 



Whyte's Red Seedling i. 



Grown by R. B. Whyte, Ottawa, Canada; under test at the Central Experimental 

 Farm, under the name "Whyte R. B., No. 3." Fruit medium in size, roundish; cavity 

 narrow; suture a line; apex rounded; deep red; dots and bloom lacking; skin thin, 

 tender; flesh yellow, juicy, sweet; good; stone long, semi-clinging; mid-season. 

 Whitley. Domestica. i. Hogg Fruit Man. 731. 1884. Whitley's i. 



Fruit below medium size, round; suture faint; stem on a slight elevation, of medium 

 length, slender; red with yellow dots, darker on the side next the sun; flesh yellow 

 with white veins, juicy, sweet and well flavored; clingstone; late. 

 Wier. Americana, i. Am. Gard. 13:460. 1892. 2. Cornell Sta. Bui. 38:45, 86. 1892. 

 3. Wis. Sta. Bui. 63:63. 1897. 



Wier Large Red i. Wier's Large Red z, 3. 



Originated by D. B. Wier of Illinois; resembles Miner, but is no better than that 

 variety. Fruit large, round; skin thin, red; flesh yellow, moderately firm; fair to 

 good; clingstone. 

 Wier No. 50. Americana, i. Kerr Cat. 1^94. 2. Wis. Sta. Bui. 63:63. 1897. 



Wier's No. 50, i, 2. 



From D. B. Wier of Illinois. Tree vigorous, healthy, productive, bears annually; 

 fruit large, round, dark red over yellow; good; clingstone; mid-season. 

 Wilde. Domestica. i. Horticulturist 7:402. 1852. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 953. 

 1869. Wilde's I. 



Raised by a Mr. Comack from a stone brought from Italy by R. H. Wilde. Tree 

 productive; fruit medium to large, oval-oblong, greenish-yellow; flesh yellowish-green, 

 firm, dry, sweet; clingstone; early. 



Wilder. Munsoniana. 1. Cornell Sta. Bui. sS-.-jS. 1892. 2. Terry Cai. 1899. 3. Ala. 

 Coll. Sta. Bui. 112:178. 1900. 4. Waugh Plum Cult. 175. 1901. 



Col. Wilder 1,2. Colonel Wilder 4. President Wilder 3. 



