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Document: 17 Plums in South Dakota

Source page: Open page 14 in document reader

Institution: Open PRAIRIE | Publisher: | Year: | Pages: 89

Source URL: https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&context=agexperimentsta_bulletins

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Cultivars Added
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Claims Added
  • Compass | anecdote_snippet | Author states the name "Compass cherry" is a misnomer for many readers, describing it instead as a small extra early plum.
  • Compass | breeder_reference | Origin attributed to H. Knudson, Springfield, Minnesota, in spring 1891.
  • Compass | culinary_use | Noted as good to eat out of hand and suitable for fine jelly.
  • Compass | description_snippet | Estimated harvest window is around August 18–23.
  • Compass | description_snippet | Fruit was likely assessed as short-keeping, but the OCR text truncates after "Keeps only" and does not preserve the full duration detail.
  • Compass | entry_hardiness_observation | The text implies concern for regional suitability and general adaptability by positioning Compass as a useful northern hybrid candidate in station trials.
  • Compass | entry_pedigree | Compass is recorded as Besseyi × Americana lineage; creation described as crossing Sand Cherry (female) from near Bismarck, North Dakota with Miner plum, with later note suggesting the true parent may have been a
  • Compass | flavor_profile | Fruit flavor is described as pleasant and sprightly.
  • Compass | fruit_color | Fruit is reported as dark red with very glossy skin.
  • Compass | fruit_size | Fruit is described as small plum-like fruit.
  • Compass | growth_habit | Tree is large, upright, strong-growing, and tends to form long slender branches, so early trimming is suggested.
  • Compass | productivity | Compass is reported as an early and abundant bearer.
  • Compass | selection_origin_reference | Compass is on the Minnesota and South Dakota State Horticultural Societies trial list, and six station trees were planted in 1898 for plant-breeding attention.
Figures Added
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Citations Added
  • References to trial list placement and station breeding attention for the Compass cultivar by Minnesota and South Dakota State Horticultural Societies.
Cultivars Removed
  • Clingstone Wolf
  • Comfort
Claims Removed
  • Clingstone Wolf | description_snippet | A. Norby reported the fruit runs large and is more exempt from insect injuries than most other kinds.
  • Clingstone Wolf | description_snippet | Plum growers found that under propagation in commercial nurseries there were two distinct varieties under the name Wolf; the true Wolf is a freestone and the spurious Wolf is provisionally called Clin
  • Clingstone Wolf | flavor_profile | A. Norby rated it as only medium quality and later said it lacks quality.
  • Clingstone Wolf | fruit_color | A. Norby described it as of darker color than Freestone Wolf.
  • Clingstone Wolf | productivity | A. Norby wrote that it was not as heavy a bearer as Stoddard.
  • Clingstone Wolf | recommendation_context | A. Norby called it a good variety.
  • Clingstone Wolf | recommendation_context | A. Norby described it in 1904 as a good market plum, exceptionally free from insect injuries or fungus diseases, and moderately productive.
  • Clingstone Wolf | recommendation_context | In December 1904, the Minnesota State Horticultural Society recommended fruit list mentioned only the "Wolf (freestone)."
  • Clingstone Wolf | storage_duration | A. Norby wrote that it keeps and carries well.
  • Clingstone Wolf | taxon_context | Listed as an Americana plum.
  • Comfort | breeder_reference | Introduced by John Wragg & Sons, Waukee, Iowa, in 1879.
  • Comfort | entry_location | Associated with Waukee, Iowa.
  • Comfort | recommendation_context | A. Norby wrote, "Much too late for this section, of no value here."
  • Comfort | release_year_reference | Referenced introduction year: 1879.
  • Comfort | taxon_context | Listed as an Americana plum.
  • Compass | breeder_reference | The originator named is H. Knudson.
  • Compass | description_snippet | The text says it is called the Compass cherry but would be called a small extra early plum by most people.
  • Compass | entry_location | The origin is tied to Springfield, Minnesota; the Sand Cherry parent came from near Bismarck, North Dakota.
  • Compass | entry_pedigree | It was produced by crossing the Sand Cherry from near Bismarck, North Dakota, with the Miner plum.
  • Compass | entry_pedigree | The Sand Cherry was the female parent.
Figures Removed
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Citations Removed
  • Minnesota State Horticultural Society recommended fruit list (December 1904)

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