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Document: 17 Plums in South Dakota

Source page: Open page 37 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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W. H. Heald Seedlings

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Norby No 51 | anecdote_snippet | The writer positions No. 51 as one of several promising seedlings within a broad seedling population.
Norby No 51 | culinary_use | No severe pest- or disease-type defects reported for harvesting window; specifically noted as not hurt by gouger or curculio.
Norby No 51 | entry_location | Reported from Madison, South Dakota.
Norby No 51 | entry_pedigree | Named as a specific numbered seedling selection in a locally selected group rather than a named commercial release.
Norby No 51 | fruit_color | Fruit described as round, red, with white bloom, and attractive.
Norby No 51 | fruit_size | Size reported as approximately one and three-eighths by one and seven-sixteenths inches in diameter.
Norby No 51 | growth_habit | Tree described as small in size.
Norby No 51 | keeping_quality | Fruit hangs well on tree for about a week after coloring and keeps well after harvest.
Norby No 51 | productivity | Observed as small tree with first fruiting year and small crop.
Norby No 51 | recommendation_context | Reported specifically to encourage other growers to save and propagate best pits from best seedlings.
Norby No 51 | selection_origin_reference | Attributed to A. Norby of Madison, South Dakota, where numerous seedlings were raised; this entry references a group in which Norby No. 11 is also cited elsewhere.
W. H. Heald Seedlings | anecdote_snippet | A freeze on September 12 and subsequent neglect contributed to substantial crop loss (about fifteen bushels) in one season.
W. H. Heald Seedlings | breeder_reference | Attributed to grower-selection and trial management by W. H. Heald.
W. H. Heald Seedlings | description_snippet | The cited management history and yield notes imply variable productivity by season and sensitivity to frost/late-season care.
W. H. Heald Seedlings | entry_hardiness_observation | Approximately 260 surviving seedling trees after initial establishment suggests reasonable establishment under local site conditions.
W. H. Heald Seedlings | entry_location | Letcher, South Dakota.
W. H. Heald Seedlings | entry_pedigree | Planting record uses structured spacing (rows 14 ft 8 in apart; 11 ft in-row) and corn interculture for initial years.
W. H. Heald Seedlings | productivity | About 260 seedlings survived; orchard sales reported at $119 in 1902 and $112.25 in 1903, with some losses and reduced management in the larger 1903 crop.
W. H. Heald Seedlings | selection_origin_reference | W. H. Heald established seedling trees in Letcher, South Dakota, from saved DeSoto pits purchased in 1895.

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Desoto
Dewolf Seedling
Forest Garden
Hawkeye
Quaker
Wolf
Wyant

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Desoto | breeding_parent_named | W. H. Heald later bought DeSoto plums and saved the pits for planting.
Desoto | recommendation_context | Gurney's premium used DeSoto as the flavor benchmark for seedling plums.
Desoto | selection_origin_reference | DeSoto was one of the main varieties in H. J. Gurney's Elk Point orchard.
Dewolf Seedling | anecdote_snippet | The parent orchard was described as the largest plum orchard in the state, containing about fourteen acres.
Dewolf Seedling | description_snippet | Form regular, roundish approaching oval; apex flat; cavity wide and very shallow; suture a line; surface somewhat glossy.
Dewolf Seedling | description_snippet | In some specimens the red color became very dark, and the dots varied considerably in size.
Dewolf Seedling | description_snippet | Pit free, roundish-oval, and somewhat flattened.
Dewolf Seedling | entry_location | The seedlings were grown from pits saved in the plum orchard of H. J. Gurney at Elk Point, South Dakota.
Dewolf Seedling | flavor_profile | Skin rather thin and free from astringency; flesh dark yellow and tender; flavor sweet and juicy; quality very good.
Dewolf Seedling | fruit_color | Color was an attractive dark red, slightly marbled on the shady side with dark yellow, with some blue bloom and many large conspicuous dots.
Dewolf Seedling | fruit_size | Fruit described from ten samples was very large, about one and one-half by one and three-eighths inches.
Dewolf Seedling | recommendation_context | C. W. Gurney offered a $100 premium for plums from these seedlings equal to DeSoto in flavor or to Hawkeye and Quaker in size and beauty.
Dewolf Seedling | selection_origin_reference | J. DeWolf of Letcher, South Dakota, reported in a letter dated September 7, 1904 that he had received tame seedling plums from C. W. Gurney of Yankton in 1901.
Forest Garden | selection_origin_reference | Forest Garden was one of the main varieties in H. J. Gurney's Elk Point orchard.
Hawkeye | recommendation_context | Gurney's premium used Hawkeye as one of the standards for size and beauty in seedling plums.
Hawkeye | selection_origin_reference | Hawkeye was one of the main varieties in H. J. Gurney's Elk Point orchard.
Norby No 51 | description_snippet | Fruit was nearly round.
Norby No 51 | entry_hardiness_observation | It did not crack and was not hurt by the gouger or curculio.
Norby No 51 | fruit_color | Fruit was red with white bloom and considered beautiful.
Norby No 51 | fruit_size | Fruit size was about one and three-eighths by one and seven-sixteenths inches in diameter.

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reported to the South Dakota Horticultural Society in 1902

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