Cultivar 382: Bassett

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Usage Facet: class=edible; edible_score=1.0; ornamental_score=0.0; inferred_from_taxon=no

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Bassett is a cultivated beach plum, identified here as Prunus maritima. The South Dakota bulletin treats it as a representative of the beach plum species, native to the Atlantic coast from New Brunswick to Virginia, rather than as a promising orchard plum. It was reportedly found wild in New Jersey about 33 years before the bulletin account. [S1]

The surviving description is brief but clear about why Bassett mattered in prairie testing. In the Station orchard, it proved too small and too late to be valuable. The same bulletin says that Prunus maritima, at least as represented by Bassett, showed no promise for the Northwest. [S1]

Bassett is therefore more useful as a historical marker than as a recommended cultivar. It shows that beach plum material was being noticed, named, and tested far outside its native coastal range, but this South Dakota trial did not find it commercially or horticulturally worthwhile under northern Great Plains conditions. The source does not give a fuller fruit description, tree habit, or storage record for Bassett itself. [S1]

Summary source basis

S1: Plums in South Dakota

This summary currently draws chiefly from Plums in South Dakota.

Featured source descriptions

“The variety was found wild in New Jersey about 33 years earlier.”
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“As represented by Bassett, Prunus maritima appears to be of no promise for the Northwest.”
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“In the Station orchard it proved too small and too late to be of any value.”
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Bassett, Prunus maritima. Found wild in New Jersey about 33 years ago. This variety in the Station orchard proves to be too small and too late to be of any value.Plums in South Dakota, p11
Bassett, Prunus maritima. Found wild in New Jersey about 33 years ago. This variety in the Station orchard proves to be too small and too late to be of any value.Plums in South Dakota, p11
Bassett, Prunus maritima. Found wild in New Jersey about 33 years ago. This variety in the Station orchard proves to be too small and too late to be of any value.Plums in South Dakota, p11
Bassett, Prunus maritima. Found wild in New Jersey about 33 years ago. This variety in the Station orchard proves to be too small and too late to be of any value.Plums in South Dakota, p11

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Citation Drawer (Top Supporting Sources)

Document	Title/URL	Rights	Claims	Relationships	History Events	Pages	Snippets
17	Plums in South Dakota	unknown	4	0	0	p11	In the Station orchard it proved too small and too late to be of any value.; The entry associates the variety's origin with New Jersey.; The variety was found wild in New Jersey about 33 years earlier.; Bassett is identi

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17	p11	recommendation_context	In the Station orchard it proved too small and too late to be of any value.	Bassett, Prunus maritima. Found wild in New Jersey about 33 years ago. This variety in the Station orchard proves to be too small and too late to be of any value.	page_block:0.90
17	p11	entry_location	The entry associates the variety's origin with New Jersey.	Bassett, Prunus maritima. Found wild in New Jersey about 33 years ago. This variety in the Station orchard proves to be too small and too late to be of any value.	page_block:0.90
17	p11	selection_origin_reference	The variety was found wild in New Jersey about 33 years earlier.	Bassett, Prunus maritima. Found wild in New Jersey about 33 years ago. This variety in the Station orchard proves to be too small and too late to be of any value.	page_block:0.90
17	p11	taxon_context	Bassett is identified as Prunus maritima.	Bassett, Prunus maritima. Found wild in New Jersey about 33 years ago. This variety in the Station orchard proves to be too small and too late to be of any value.	page_block:0.90

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Evidence Claims

Type	Claim	Confidence
recommendation_context	In the Station orchard it proved too small and too late to be of any value.	0.98
entry_location	The entry associates the variety's origin with New Jersey.	0.92
selection_origin_reference	The variety was found wild in New Jersey about 33 years earlier.	0.94
taxon_context	Bassett is identified as Prunus maritima.	0.99

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