Cooper. Domestica. 1. McMahon Am. Gard. Cal. 587. 1806. 2. Coxe Cult. Fr. Trees 236. 1817. 3. Prince Pom. Man. 2:97. 1832. 4. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 291. 1845. 5. Floy-Lindley Guide Orch. Gard. 288, 302, 383. 1846. 6. Mag. Hort. 14:152. 1848. 7. Elliott Fr. Book 417. 1854. 8. Hogg Fruit Man. 691. 1884. 9. Guide Prat. 160, 357. 1895.
Cooper’s 6. Cooper’s Grosse Pflaume 9. Cooper’s Grosse Rothe Zwetsche 9. Cooper’s Large 1, 4, 5, 8. Cooper’s Large 3, 6, 9. Cooper’s Large American 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9. Cooper’s Large Red 3. Cooper’s Large Red 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Cooper’s Large Red American 9. Coopers Plum 2. Cooper’s Plum 3, 5. Cooper’s Red 7. Grosse De Cooper 9. Grosse rouge de Cooper 9. La Delicieuse 5. La Delicieuse ?4, 8, 9. Lady Lucy 8. Red Magnum Bonum 6 incor. Smith’s Orleans 6. Violet Perdrigon 6 incor.
Cooper is said to have originated at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century from a seed of Orleans planted by Joseph Cooper of Gloucester County, New Jersey. The variety was imported into England about 1820 and became known in Europe under the name La Delicieuse which was corrupted into Lady Lucy. This variety is so similar to the Smith Orleans that it is impossible to separate them. They may be identical, or they may have come true to seed from the same parent.
Cope. Domestica. 1. U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt. 274. 1854. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 906. 1869.
Cope’s Seedling 1.
A seedling raised by John Cope of Southwark, Philadelphia, some time prior to 1850. Fruit large, long-oval, dark purple; stem long, slender; flesh dry, somewhat acid; good for cooking; freestone.
Cornemuse. Domestica. 1. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 145. 1831.
Fruit medium in size, purple, obovate; quality fair; freestone.
Corymbus. Species? 1. Vt. Sta. An. Rpt. 12:222, 1899. 2. Waugh Plum Cult. 207. 1901.