. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Notes Upon Plums. 185 Dark copper color, ripening about September 7th, and carries a foliage so perfect as to insure complete ripen- ing of its wood. A very valuable mar- ket variety which is but little grown. General Hand.—Fruit large ; skin deep yellow when ripe ; rather coarse, and not sufficiently productive to be regarded with favor by the orchardist. It ripens early in September, but trees of large size,—fifteen to twenty years of age,—have never p
. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Notes Upon Plums. 185 Dark copper color, ripening about September 7th, and carries a foliage so perfect as to insure complete ripen- ing of its wood. A very valuable mar- ket variety which is but little grown. General Hand.—Fruit large ; skin deep yellow when ripe ; rather coarse, and not sufficiently productive to be regarded with favor by the orchardist. It ripens early in September, but trees of large size,—fifteen to twenty years of age,—have never produced sufficient to pay for the use of the ground they occupy and have recently been grafted over to more valuable sorts. German Prime (Fig. 43).—So many plums are in cultivation under this name that it seems difficult ,to fix the title. I have no less than six, all dif- fering more or less in habit of growth, and yet the fruit deserves the name of a German Prune. These varieties have been obtained from parties in dif- ferent sections, each claiming his as the best. Fruit long and oval, apt to be swollen on one side ; skin purple with a fine bloom ; ripens from Septem- ber 1st to 12th. This prune is valuable for a marked sort or for home use and sells at outside prices. As a rule, the trees are poor growers and rarely afford satisfaction to those who desire to se- cure the growing habits of the Lom- bard in all of the plum family. See Italian Prune and Weedsport 'Prune. Giant Prune.—One of the new pro- ductions of Luther Burbank, of Santa Rosa, California, to whom I am in- debted for the satisfaction of having fruited it from buds sent me a few years since. I have found it fully equal in size and quality to specimens grown on the Pacific Coast. It may be classed as very large, oval, dark purple plum of excellent quality. The tree, as grown top - worked upon Lombard, seems to be of good growing Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page ima
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