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Lillie is an Americana plum. It was recorded as a seedling of Hawkeye grown by H. A. Terry of Crescent, Iowa. The South Dakota bulletin says Terry first fruited it in 1893 and introduced it in 1894. This places Lillie among the named native plum selections moving through prairie horticulture in the late nineteenth century. [S1]
The surviving origin note is brief but clear. Lillie was raised from Hawkeye seed, not described as a deliberate cross. The bulletin ties it directly to Terry and to Crescent, Iowa. This gives it a distinct place in the Americana plum group documented by the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, where named cultivars were compared for bearing, quality, and adaptation. [S1]
The supplied source does not give a written description of Lillie’s size, color, flavor, ripening season, or tree habit. It does show Lillie in photographic plates of native plums from the crops of 1902 and September 7, 1903. This confirms that it was being preserved and compared visually alongside other named native plum cultivars in station era records. [S1]
Hardiness is not stated directly for Lillie in the extracted text. Its placement in a South Dakota experiment station bulletin under the Americana section, and its inclusion in native plum plates from that regional context, support reading it as part of the hardy northern plains plum tradition, but the source does not give a zone statement. [S1]
Lillie’s broader importance in the archive is its connection to Hawkeye and to the Americana plum tradition, not to any documented descendant breeding use. What survives here is the outline of a cultivar with a named origin, a specific introducer, and visual evidence of continued station attention, though fuller fruit and tree descriptions still need to be recovered. [S1]
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This summary currently draws chiefly from Plums in South Dakota.
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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 | p22 | Introduced in 1894.; First crop of fruit in 1893.; Associated with H. A. Terry of Crescent, Iowa.; Grown from seed of Hawkeye by H. A. Terry of Crescent, Iowa. |
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| 17 | p22 | release_year_reference | Introduced in 1894. | Lillie, Americana. | page_block:0.90 |
| 17 | p22 | release_year_reference | First crop of fruit in 1893. | Lillie, Americana. | page_block:0.90 |
| 17 | p22 | breeder_reference | Associated with H. A. Terry of Crescent, Iowa. | Lillie, Americana. | page_block:0.90 |
| 17 | p22 | entry_pedigree | Grown from seed of Hawkeye by H. A. Terry of Crescent, Iowa. | Lillie, Americana. | page_block:0.90 |
| 17 | p22 | taxon_context | Classed as an Americana plum. | Lillie, Americana. | page_block:0.90 |
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| Type | Claim | Confidence |
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| release_year_reference | Introduced in 1894. | 0.91 |
| release_year_reference | First crop of fruit in 1893. | 0.93 |
| breeder_reference | Associated with H. A. Terry of Crescent, Iowa. | 0.94 |
| entry_pedigree | Grown from seed of Hawkeye by H. A. Terry of Crescent, Iowa. | 0.95 |
| taxon_context | Classed as an Americana plum. | 0.97 |
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