. The fruits and fruit trees of America;. Fruit-culture; Fruit. aio THE PLUM. Branches smooth. Fruit quite large, long-oval, a little one-sided, with an obscure suture. Stalk very long, and- slender, set in a veiy trifling depression. Skin dark pur- ple, with a thick blue bloom. Flesh greenish-yellow, firm, rather juicy, with a sweet, sprightly, pleasant flavour. It separates pretty readily from the stone, which is long and pointed. First to last of September. Ripens gradu- ally, and bears carriage well. 85. Queen Mother. Thonp. Ray. Lind. RedQuoen Mother. Pigeon's Heart. Damas Violet. A neat
. The fruits and fruit trees of America;. Fruit-culture; Fruit. aio THE PLUM. Branches smooth. Fruit quite large, long-oval, a little one-sided, with an obscure suture. Stalk very long, and- slender, set in a veiy trifling depression. Skin dark pur- ple, with a thick blue bloom. Flesh greenish-yellow, firm, rather juicy, with a sweet, sprightly, pleasant flavour. It separates pretty readily from the stone, which is long and pointed. First to last of September. Ripens gradu- ally, and bears carriage well. 85. Queen Mother. Thonp. Ray. Lind. RedQuoen Mother. Pigeon's Heart. Damas Violet. A neat little reddish plum, long known in European Fig. 128. Manning's Long Blue Prune, gardens. Branches smooth, rather feeble in growth. Fruit rather small, round, about an inch in diameter. Skin dark, purplish-red in the sun, pale red- dish amber in the shade, with many reddish dots. Stalk half an inch long. Flesh yellow, sweet and rich, separating freel}" from the stone, which is quite small, September. 86. QuETscHE, OR Gerbian Prune. Common Quetsche. True Large German Prune. Turkish Quetsche. Leipzic. Sweet Prune. Damask. Zwetsche. Quetsche Grosse. Prune d'Allemagne. ) ac. to Quetsche d'Allemagne Grosse. j Thomp Damas Gros. Covetche. Imperati%;e Violette. ^ Imperatrice Violette Grosse. [ incorrectly, of some. Damas Violet Gros. ; So many plums are cultivated under the name of German Prune, that it is difficult to fix this fickle title, a circumstance owing to the fact that the prune frequently comes the same, or nearly the same, from seed, and in prune growing districts this is a popular way of increasing them, while it, of course, gives rise to many shades of character. It if a valuable class of plums, of fair quality for the table, but most esteemed for dry. 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 origi
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