Thomas Jefferson by Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko (1746 - 1817)
List compiled by Peter Hatch.
FRUITS
Almond
Prunus dulcis var. dulcis
"Almonds from the Streights" 1774
"bitter almonds" 1774
“hardshelled sweet almonds from Cadiz. from Harriet Hackley" 1810
"hard shelled bitter almond" 1774
"sweet almonds with smooth rinds" 1774
"sweet almonds with hairy rinds" 1774
"sweet almonds with hard shells" 1774
"a Virginian Almond," probably a native nut like the bitternut (Juglans cinerea) or indigenous hazelnut (Corylus americana) 1774
Apple 1774
Malus pumila
Calville Blanc d'Hiver ("Calvite”) 1804
Clarkes’s Pearmain (possibly syn. Golden Pearmain) 1796
"Detroit large white" (probably syn. with White Bellflower) 1804
Detroit Red ("Detroit large red") 1804
Early Harvest 1791
English Codlin 1778
Esopus Spitzenberg 1791
Golden Wilding 1778
Hewes’s Crab (Hughes, Crab, Virginia Crab) 1796
"iron wilding" 1810
"mammoth" (possibly syn. with Gloria Mundi) 1809
Medlar Russetin 1778
Newtown Pippin (Albemarle Pippin)"ox-eye striped" 1769
(?Vandevere or Newtown Spitzenberg) 1804
Pomme Gris ("pumgray") 1804
"russetin" (likely Golden Russet or Roxbury Russet) 1778
Taliaferro 1778
White, Virginia White, or Bray's White ("white") 1778
Apricot
Prunus armeniaca 1769
Angelica 1804
"Bordeaux" 1810
Brussels 1791
Early Red 1804
Large Early 1791
Moor Park ("German") 1791
"Melon" 1787
Peach ("peach-apricot") 1804
Cherry
Prunus avium, P. cerasus 1769
August 1783
Black Heart ("forward" and "latter") 1778
Bleeding Heart 1783
"Broadnax" 1773
Carnation 1773
Cornus Mas ("Ciriege corniole") 1774
Early May ("May," Prunus fruticosa) 1767
English Morello ("Myrilla,” "large Morella") 1778
"Kentish"
(Early Richmond and/or Late Kentish) 1778
May Duke ("Duke") 1778
"Tuckahoe grey heart" 1811
White Heart 1778
Currant
Ribes sp. 1770
European Red (Ribes sativum) 1778
Sweet-scented or Buffalo (Ribes odoratum) 1807
Yellow (Ribes aureum) 1807
Fig
Ficus carica 1769
"ancient"
Angelique ("white Angelic") 1789
“large” 1789
Marseilles ("white") 1789
“purple" 1817
Gooseberry
Ribes uva-crispa 1767
"Red” 1812
Grape
Vitis vinifera', V. rotundifolia", V. vulpina
"Abrostine red" (Colorino?) 1807
"Abrostine white" (Picolit?) 1807
Aleatico 1807
Alexander ("Cape,” "Cape of Good Hope grape") 1802
"Black cluster" (Pinot Noir?) 1807
Black Hamburg 1807
Bland 1822
Chasselas Dore ("Chasselas") 1807
Chasselas Rose ("Brick coloured") 1796
Furmint ("Tokay") 1807
"Lachrima Christi" (Tinto di Spagna?) 1807
Luglienga ("Great July") 1807
"Malaga" (Muscat of Alexandria?) 1807
Mammolo Toscano ("Mammole") 1807
Morgiano ("Margiano") 1807
"Muscadine" (Chasselas Blanc?) 1807
Muscat Blanc ("white Frontignac") 1807
Norton’s Seedling 1824
"Piedmont malmsey" (Malvasia Bianca?) 1807
Olivette Blanche ("Gallettas") 1807
"Purple Syrian" 1807
Red Hamburg 1807
Regina ("Queen's grape") 1807
Sangiovese ("San Giovetto”) 1807
Seralamanna (Muscat of Alexandria?) 1807
Scuppernong 1817
"Smyra grape without seeds" 1807
"Spanish raisins" 1774
"Toccai” or "Tokay" (Tocai Rosso?) 1807
Trebbiano 1807
"White Sweet Water" 1796
Nectarine
Prunus persica var. nucipersica 1769
"Kaskaskia soft" 1810
Red Roman 1791
Yellow Roman 1791
Peach
Prunus persica 1771
Alberges 1804
Algiers Yellow 1791
Apple (Pesca mela, "Melon") 1804
"Balyal’s white, red, & yellow plumb peaches" 1786
“General Jackson’s” 1807
Green Nutmeg 1791
Heath Cling 1813
Indian Blood Cling ("black Georgia plumb peach") 1810
Indian Blood Free ("black soft peaches from Georgia") 1804
"Lady's favorite" 1807
Lemon Cling ("Lemon," "Canada Carolina") 1807
Maddelena 1804
"Magdalene" (either Red Magdalen or White Magdalene) 1806
Malta 1813
"mammoth" 1807
Morris’s Red Rareripe ("Italian red-freestone") 1807
Morris’s White Rareripe ("Italian-White-freestone”) 1807
"October," "yellow clingstone of October" 1807
Oldmixon Cling 1807
Oldmixon Free 1807
“plumb" 1772
Poppa di Venere (“Teat,” Breast of Venus) 1804
Portugal 1780
San Jacopo (St. James?) 1804
"soft" ("October soft," "November soft," "Timothy Lomax's soft,” “large white soft,”
“fine white soft,” “large yellow soft," "early soft," etc.) 1810
Vaga Loggia Cling 1804
Vaga Loggia Free 1804
White blossomed (?) 1810
Pear
Prunus communis 1769
Beurre Gris 1791
Crassane 1789
"English" (“3 kinds") 1778
"fine late large" 1778
"forward" 1778
Meriwether 1778
Royal 1789
Seckel 1807
"Sugar" 1778
St. Germaine, or Richmond 1807
Virgouleuse 1789
Plum
Prunus domestics, P. insititia, etc.
Apricot 1780
Boccon de Re 1804
Brignole 1791
Chickasaw, Prunus angustifolia ("Cherokee") 1812
Cooper’s Large 1807
Drap d'Or 1780
Damson ("Damascene") 1778
"Florida" (probably Prunus umbellata) 1814
Green Gage, Reine Claude ("Reginia Claudia") 1783
"Horse" (Prunus americana or Damson, P. insititia) 1778
Imperatrice, Blue Imperatrice 1780
"Large Blue" 1810
"Large white sweet" 1780
Magnum Bonum, Mogul, Yellow Egg, White Imperial 1778
Mirabelle 1804
Muscle 1767
Orleans 1780
Red Imperial 1780
"Regina" (possible Queen Mother, or Damas Violet) 1804
"Purple Prune" 1807
Royal 1780
"Small green plum" 1778
White Imperial 1780
Pomegranate
Punica granatum 1769
Quince
Cydonia oblonga 1769
Strawberry
Fragaria sp. 1766
Alpine (Fragaria vesca) 1774
Chili (F. chiloensis) 1798
Hudson (F. x ananassa?) 1812
"large garden" ("Fragoloni di giardino") 1774
"May" ("Fragoloni Mazzese") 1774
Scarlet (F. virginiana) 1766
"White" ( F. vesca or F. moschata) 1782
Raspberry
Rubus idaeus 1770
"Common" 1811
"Monthly" 1809
"Mountain" (Rubus strigosus) 1821
Red Antwerp 1790
White Antwerp 1807
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