Archive image from page 221 of Cyclopedia of hardy fruits (1922). Cyclopedia of hardy fruits cyclopediaofhard00hedr Year: 1922 Abundance. (XD a wide diversity of soils and climates, and, as its name implies, abundance of fruit, for it bears not only heavily but also yearly. As a market plum. Abundance has several faults; the fruits ship and keep poorly, are subject to brown-rot, mature unevenly, and drop rather too readily as they ripen. The crop should be picked before quite ripe, as the plums develop in flavor best when picked early, and the dropping and rot are thus avoided. The variety i
Archive image from page 221 of Cyclopedia of hardy fruits (1922). Cyclopedia of hardy fruits cyclopediaofhard00hedr Year: 1922 Abundance. (XD a wide diversity of soils and climates, and, as its name implies, abundance of fruit, for it bears not only heavily but also yearly. As a market plum. Abundance has several faults; the fruits ship and keep poorly, are subject to brown-rot, mature unevenly, and drop rather too readily as they ripen. The crop should be picked before quite ripe, as the plums develop in flavor best when picked early, and the dropping and rot are thus avoided. The variety is exceedingly variable, and undoubt- edly several well marked strains could be se- lected, some of which are not so hardy or otherwise so valuable as others. Abundance was imported from Japan by Luther Burbank in 1884. Tree large, vigorous, vasiform, open-topped, hardy, very productive. Lea'es narrow-obovate, peach-like, 1 inches wide, 3 V inches long, thin; apex taper-pointed; base cuneate ; margin very finely serrate, with small, brown glands; petiole inch long, pubescent along one side, red, glandless or witli 1-5 small, globose, green or reddish glands. Flowers appearing with the leaves, medium in size. Fruit early; 1 inches in diameter, round-ovate, slightly compressed; cavity medium in depth and width, abrupt, regular; suture shallow, dis- tinct ; apex pointed; color dark red, mottled; bloom light; dots numerous, russet, conspicuous; stem inch long, glabrous, parting easily from the fruit; flesh yellow, very juicy, tender and melting, sweet, pleas- antly aromatic ; good ; stone clinging, oval, compressed, pointed, rough. AGEN. Fig. 182. P. domestica. D'Agen. French Prune. Petite Prune. Agen is largely grown for prune-making in France and Amer- ica. Several qual- ities admirably fit the fruits for cur- ing into prunes. Thus, the plum has a high percentage of sugar and solids, so that it cures readily into a firm, sweet, long-keep- ing prune, which, in cooking, needs comp
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