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Comfort is an Americana plum introduced by John Wragg & Sons of Waukee, Iowa, in 1879.[S1] The surviving notes are brief, but they place it in the nineteenth century nursery trade that supplied hardy plums to the upper Midwest and northern plains.[S1]
South Dakota sources show that Comfort was tested under prairie conditions, but it was not rated well everywhere. In Madison, A. Norby called it "much too late for this section" and said it had no value there, while another South Dakota bulletin lists Comfort among the plum varieties that had fruited locally, apparently for the first time in the previous season.[S1] [S2] These remarks suggest that the cultivar could bear in the region but often ripened too late to be reliable in its colder parts.[S1] [S2]
The packet does not preserve a full fruit description for Comfort. The cited material here gives no details on size, color, flesh, flavor, or storage.[S1] [S2] The clearest recorded trait is season. Norby described it as pretty late, matching his stronger comment that it was too late to be useful in his section.[S1]
The broader context matters. Comfort appears in South Dakota discussions of native and hardy plums grown under difficult Great Plains conditions, where adaptation, earliness, and reliable cropping were decisive traits.[S2] In that setting, lateness could outweigh any other merit. Based on these sources, Comfort belongs to the Americana plum tradition, but in this record it survives more as a named historical cultivar than as a strongly recommended prairie sort.[S1] [S2]
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This summary currently draws chiefly from Plums in South Dakota, with 1 additional supporting sources linked below.
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“Comfort falls within the group described as fruiting there for the first time last season.”
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“Pretty late.”
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“A. Norby wrote, "Much too late for this section, of no value here."”
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| Document | Title/URL | Rights | Claims | Relationships | History Events | Pages | Snippets |
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| 17 | Plums in South Dakota | unknown | 5 | 0 | 0 | p14 | A. Norby wrote, "Much too late for this section, of no value here."; Referenced introduction year: 1879.; Associated with Waukee, Iowa.; Introduced by John Wragg & Sons, Waukee, Iowa, in 1879. |
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| 17 | p14 | recommendation_context | A. Norby wrote, "Much too late for this section, of no value here." | Comfort, Americana. | page_block:0.90 |
| 17 | p14 | release_year_reference | Referenced introduction year: 1879. | Comfort, Americana. | page_block:0.90 |
| 17 | p14 | entry_location | Associated with Waukee, Iowa. | Comfort, Americana. | page_block:0.90 |
| 17 | p14 | breeder_reference | Introduced by John Wragg & Sons, Waukee, Iowa, in 1879. | Comfort, Americana. | page_block:0.90 |
| 17 | p14 | taxon_context | Listed as an Americana plum. | Comfort, Americana. | page_block:0.90 |
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| recommendation_context | A. Norby wrote, "Much too late for this section, of no value here." | 0.94 |
| release_year_reference | Referenced introduction year: 1879. | 0.95 |
| entry_location | Associated with Waukee, Iowa. | 0.95 |
| breeder_reference | Introduced by John Wragg & Sons, Waukee, Iowa, in 1879. | 0.96 |
| taxon_context | Listed as an Americana plum. | 0.99 |
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