. The Cromwell Nursery : 1900. Nurseries (Horticulture) Connecticut Cromwell Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. THE CROMWELL NURSERY, CROMWELL, CONN. 21. New Plum, "; PLUMS, continued. growth and general appearance the tree is like the American Chickasaw Plums. The fruit is larger than the average Japans and 4 to 16 times as large as Robinson or Mari- anna. Fruit a beauti- ful, glossy coral-red ; flesh yellow and very delicious. Ripens two weeks before Bur- ; S. D. Willard says of America : '' One of the finest Plums
. The Cromwell Nursery : 1900. Nurseries (Horticulture) Connecticut Cromwell Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. THE CROMWELL NURSERY, CROMWELL, CONN. 21. New Plum, "; PLUMS, continued. growth and general appearance the tree is like the American Chickasaw Plums. The fruit is larger than the average Japans and 4 to 16 times as large as Robinson or Mari- anna. Fruit a beauti- ful, glossy coral-red ; flesh yellow and very delicious. Ripens two weeks before Bur- ; S. D. Willard says of America : '' One of the finest Plums I ever tasted ; while its color is so attractive as to make it nearly irresist- ; The tree has made a good growth here and seems hardy. 75c. Apple. "Tree a very fine, strong grower, with peculiar light brown bark. The fruit, which is about lyi inches in diameter, is striped and mottled until nearly ripe, when it turns to a deep reddish purple. The superlatively rich, high-flavored, sweet or subacid flesh is rather firm, pale red, with streaks of pink ; nearly freestone. Ripens soon after Burbank, and sometimes keeps a month or ; Its growth here is similar to Burbank's. 75 cts. Chaleo. " A Simonii-Burbank cross. A tremendous grower of unsurpassed p r oductiveness. Ripens before Bur- bank, is large, flat like a tomato, deep reddish purple; flesh very sweet, firm and fragrant. The fruits are as stemless as a peach, and completely sur- round the older branches, like ker- nels on a huge ear Of corn, A supe- rior shipping Plum, as it ripens well when picked] green and keeps nearly or quite a month. Chaleo is the fore- Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cromwell Nursery; Butler & Jewell Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. Cromwell,
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