Small Damas 1. Little Black Damask 1. Small Black Damask 2.
Black Damask has been confused by the old writers with the common Damson. This plum is a Domestica with a sweet, pleasantly flavored flesh suitable for dessert purposes and ripens much earlier than the Damson.
Black Damask Hasting. Insititia. 1. Quintinye Com. Gard. 68. 1699.
Mentioned by Quintinye as having a “sharp and sourish taste.”
Black Hawk. Americana. 1. Ia. Sta. Bul. 4:95. 1889. 2. Wis. Sta. Bul. 63:29. 1897. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 37. 1899. 4. Waugh Plum Cult. 143. 1901.
A wild variety found in Black Hawk County, Iowa. Tree hardy, vigorous, and productive; fruit large, flattened, more convex on the ventral side; suture distinct; deep red; skin thick, tough; flesh yellow, tender, rich; good; stone free, mid-season; listed in the fruit catalog of the American Pomological Society in 1899.
Black Hill. Domestica. 1. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 144. 1831.
Cultivated in the Gardens of the London Horticultural Society.
Black Pear. Domestica. 1. Rea Flora 208. 1676. 2. Langley Pomona 96. 1729.
A variety of early European origin now obsolete. Fruit pear-shaped; skin dark red or black; juicy when fully ripe.