Jordan. The guys from Arboreum gave me a cutting and it’s extremely rare. Red skin with snow white flesh. I grafted it onto my Santa Rosa and I’m hoping it takes. I’m fascinated by the “lost” plums. So many varieties were just deemed not commercial and were discarded.
Oh yes, I read through that the other night. It’s a surprisingly fast read. Sadly, though, there are no lists that I found of the fruit that he introduced, so I had to pick through to find the names of things, some he just mentions in passing. I think the assumption was that they were already out there and would stay out there. I bought a biography of LB (The Garden of Invention) and I was hoping it would have that information. Nope. It’s going to take a lot more digging, I’m afraid.