Heirloom Plum Varieties in Watercolour
272 historic plum cultivars from the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection (1886–1942)
Between 1886 and 1942 the U.S. Department of Agriculture commissioned artists to paint thousands of plum cultivars as official identification records. Browse the historic plums below — many are heritage varieties no longer found in shops.
Abundance
Admiral
Agen
Alexander
Alhambra
All Fruit
Alpha
America
American Eagle
Americana
Anita
Apple
Arkansas Lombard
Ascension
Barkley
Bartlett
Bates
Bavay Green Gage
Becky Smith
Berger
Bess
Best
Best Hybrid
Beta
Bilona
Black Bullach
Black Prince
Black Prune
Botan?
Brackett
Bradshaw
Brunswick
Burbank
Burbank Late
Burbank No. 2
Burton
Chabot
Chalco
Champion
Clifford
Climax
Clyman
Coeur de Boeuf
Coletto
Combination
Communia
Compass
Copper
Cove
Crittenden
Daisy
Damson
Dawson Prune
Dayton
De Caradenc
De Norbet
Delicious
Dewey
Diamond
Dolores
Doris
Dorothy
Dorsett
Dosch Prune
Dr. Upp Szilvaja
Duarte
Duchess
Dunlaps No. 2
Eagle
Earliana
Early Red
Early Rose
Eldora
Engre
Etta
Excelsior
Farmosa
Femmouzi
First
Flaming Delicious
Forewattamie
Fraud
Free Silver
Freestone
Gaviota
Georgeson
Giant Prune
Golden
Golden Queen
Gonzales
Goosedye
Govalle
Grand Duke
Green Gage
Groff Prune
Gueii
Hale
Hall
Hand?
Hanska
Happiness
Heaton
Henry Berter
Honey
Hungarian
Illinois Ironclad
Imperial Epineuse
Italian Prune
Jones
July Beauty
Kathrin
Kelbolan
Kelsey
Kelsey No. 2
Kelso
Kerr
Kieth
Kimball
Kingston
Kiscab
Kitty
Klondyke
Korai
Lafayette
Laire
Lannix
Large English
Late Orange
Late Orleans
Latest
Lincoln
Lombard
Lota
Mackinan
Madison
Mammoth Gold
Marais des Cygnes
Margaret
Marianna
Marketman
Maru
Marunka
Mason
McCartney
McLaughlin
McRea
Merunka
Methley
Middleburg
Miner
Mirabelle Tardive
Miracle
Moldavka
Moncelt
Montgamet
Moorpark
Morgan
Mt. Logan
Munson
Murdy
Nagy
New Cherry
Newman
Niagara
No. 50 Seedling
Nona
Normand
North Star
Occident
October Purple
Ogon
Opata
Orient
Pacific Prune
Paisley
Palmer
Pander
Pasha
Pavatine
Peach
Pomona
Pond
Ponds Seedling
Pottawattamie
President
Pride of Florida
Prinlew
Prinley; Prinlew
Pritty
Prize
Profuse
Purple King
Purple Yosemite
Quinn
Ragland
Rastus
Reagan
Red June
Red May
Red Nagate
Red October
Reliance
Rice Seed
Roselle
Rot Proof
Royal
Ruby
Rutland Plumcot
Santa Rosa
Saratoga
Satsugon
Shippers Pride
Shiro
Shropshire
Shropshire Damson
Silver Prune
Simon
Sirocco
Six Weeks
Smith
Smiths Late
Sophie
Splendor
Stanley
Starks Gold
Steinman No. 2
Steptoe
Stoddard
Straug
Stumpe
Sugar
Sugar Prune
Sultan
Sunrise
Surprise
Swan
Tatge
Teeter
Thanksgiving Prune
Toka
Tragedy
Truro
Tucker
Turkish Prune
Uff
Uncle Ben
Upright
Variety
Wachampa
Warren
Watson
Waugh
Wayland Type
Weaver
White Bullace
White Queen
Whittaker
Wickson
Wicksons Challenge
Wild Goose
Willard
Wilson
Winesap
Winter Damson
Wyant
Yamhill
Yates
Yellow Aubert
Yellow Egg
Yellow Transparent
York State Prune
Yosobe