Introduced from Russia by J. L. Budd of the Iowa Experiment Station in 1882. According to the introducer this variety was found in southwest Russia and Poland; said to have come from central Asia. Evidently related to the Yellow Egg, differing in being earlier and of better quality.
Auburn. Domestica. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 897. 1869.
A variety said by Downing to be a native of western New York. Fruit medium in size, oval; suture shallow; skin light reddish-purple with a thin bloom; stem short; flesh coarse, orange-yellow, not juicy, sweet, pleasant; good; freestone; early.
Auchtertyre. Domestica. 1. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 143. 1831.
A small, oval, purple, early plum; quality medium; freestone; obsolete.
August. Nigra. 1. Bailey Ann. Hort. 20. 1889. 2. Wis. Sta. Bul. 63:27. 1897.
August Red 1.
A large purplish-red variety introduced by J. W. Kerr, Maryland. Fruit oblong; clingstone; tree upright, vigorous, unproductive; foliage resembling that of an apricot.
August Zwetsche. Domestica. Mentioned in Mathieu Nom. Pom. 421. 1889.
Liegel’s August Zwetsche.