AMYGDALACE^. IV. Prunus. 



503 



25 Horse pltiniy Irish horse plum. 



26 ImpSriale de Milan* 



27 Imperiale Ottoman. 



28 ImpSriale violette. Duham. arb. fr, 2. p. 98. no. 32. t, 15. 



29 Imperiale violette afeuilles panachees. Duham. arb. fr. 2. 



p. 99. no. 33. 

 30 Isabella. 



Wood downy. Fruit oval, red, middle-sized ; 



24 Blucher^s gage. 25 BanJcer^s gage. 26 Flushing gage, 

 27 Schuyler^s gage. 28 White gage. 29 GarlicVs early. 

 30 GoldsmitKs Fienna. 31 Green plum of Tours. 32 Grove^ 

 house purple. 33 Honey Julien. 34 Horse jag. 35 Jean mor- 



36 Julien gros a feuilles panachees. 37 Kenellan, 38 



40 Luscomhe^s seedling. 



ceau. 



Lammas. 39 Large green drying. 



41 Maitre Claude. 



flesh adhering to the stone. A first-rate dessert and kitchen Mirahelle rouge. 



42 Mignonne. 

 45 Miviam, 



43 Mirahelle de Lory. 44 



fruit, ripening in the end of August. 



31 Jacinthe. Duham. arb. fr. 2. p. 100. no. 34. t. 16. 



32 Prunallier. 



S3 Prunallier petit. 



34 Qwe^^cAe (Nois. jard. fr. 144. no. 42.), common quetsche, 

 Zwetschen (Lois. 1. c. p. 203. t. 55. f. 6.), Zrvetsche, Zrvetschke, 

 gmse quetsche, prune d'Allemagne, prunier Allemand (Lois. 1. c. 

 p. 202. no. 45.), gros quetsche d^Allemagnej German priinCy 

 Leipzig^ impcrairice violette of many, grosse imperatrice violette, 

 damask, gros damas, damas violette of some, gros damas violette. 

 Wood smooth. Fruit oval, middle-sized, purple ; flesh separat- 

 ing from the stone. A second-rate kitchen and preserving fruit. 

 Bears well in this country. In Germany it is much cultivated 

 for the purpose of drying. It is the German prune of the shops. 



i5 Austrian quetsche. Wood smooth. Fruit oval, purple, 



Oakley park. 48 Oddy's. 



46 Monsieur d^Agen. 

 49 Orange. 50 Panachee. 



47 Wild 

 51 Blue 



primordian. 52 Pseudo Mirahelle. 53 Queen mother. 5 i Raisin. 



50 Saint Antonio. 57 Saint Maurin. 58 Saint 



55 Roi d^Agen. 



Reme. 59 Scaldatello. 60 Scaldatone. 61 Small green dry- 



62 Steer's emperor. 



tng. 



Leipziger Svedske. 

 Victorine. 68 



Q3 Svedske linger sk. 



66 Triancon, 



65 Sweet prune. 



69 Violet de Tours. 



64 Tidlig 

 67 La 



Violet gage. 



72 YelloTvJack. 



70 White 



corn. 71 Yellow gage. 



Cultivation of the plum in orchards appears to be deserving 

 of more encouragement than it generally meets with. Not only 

 does the fruit make excellent pies and tarts, but it may be kept in 

 large quantities, so as to be ready for that purpose at any period 

 of the year. They also make a good wine, and with other fruits 

 and ingredients form one of the substitutes for port. The dam- 

 son, hullace, and some other kinds will grow and bear high fla- 



middle-sized ; flesh separating from the stone. A second-rate voured fruit in hedges, where the soil is dry below, and not too 

 preserving and kitchen fruit, ripening in the end of September. 



36 Quetsche de Breme. Wood smooth. Fruit oblong, mid- 

 dle-sized, purple ; flesh separating from the stone. A first-rate 

 preserving fruit, ripening in September. 



37 Hungarian quetsche. Wood smooth. Fruit purple, ob- 



thin. The fruit of the sloe is for wine-making superior to that 

 of the plum, and nearly as good for tarts. 



Selection of sorts. The following are recommended by Forsyth 

 for a small garden : 1 Jaune hative. 2 Morocco. 3 Or- 

 leans. 



4 Royal. 



6 Drap d'Or. 



. o 1 --^ -"*- ^v..^.^, ^«.- 5 Green-^a^e, different sorts. 



long, middle-sized; flesh separating from the stone. A pre- 7 Saint Catharine and imperatrice. 8 Magnum bo7ium, for huk- 



ing. 9 Wine-soury for preserving. — The table fruit in the Dal- 

 keith garden are as under, placed in the order of their ripening, 

 all of them being planted against walls. 1 Violet de hative. 



3 New Orleans. 



6 Blue-gage. 



gage 



Fotheringham. 

 Propagation. 



serving fruit, ripening in September. 



88 Quetsche d'ltalie. 

 ^ 89 Early Leipzig quetsche. Wood smooth. Fruit middle- 

 sized, oblong, purple ; flesh separating from the stone. A pre- 2 Early hative. 

 '^rjing fruit, ripening in the beginning of September. ^ ^' 



40 Long green quetsche. 



41 Saint James's quetsche. Fruit oblong, purple ; flesh ad- 

 ^'^S J^o the stone. A preserving fruit, ripening in September. 



42 Saint Martin's quetsche. 



43 Quetsche precoce. 



44 Quetsche Rognon de Coq. 



45 Turkish quetsche. 



46 Quetsche verte. 

 / nethereWs sweet. Fruit round, purple, small ; flesh sepa- 



7'ng from the stone. ^ ^ 



°* September. 



4 Early Morocco. 5 Green- 

 7 Blue perdrigon. 8 Jjmcot plum. 9 



10 White magnum bonum. 11 Imperial. 

 Most of the varieties are propagated by graft- 

 ing or budding on the muscle^ St. Julien, magnum bonum, or any 

 free growing ^/wtt/^, raised from seed or from suckers, but seed- 

 lings are preferable to stocks for a permanent plantation. The 

 common baking plums, as the damson, bullace, JVenln-orlh, &c. 

 are generally propagated by suckers, without being cither budded 

 or grafted. Plum grafting is performed in February or March ; 

 budding in July or August. Miller prefers budding, because 

 plums are very apt to gum wherever large wounds are made on 

 them. New varieties are procured by propagating from seeds 



A preserving fruit, ripening in the end 



4ft ii/i A. sort of damson. 



^heat, wheaten, whitton, great whitton, nutmeg. Wood 

 ooth. Fruit roundish-oblong, middle-sized, red; flesh ad- 

 ^'^g to the stone. A second-rate dessert fruit, ripening in the magnum bonum with the richness and flavour of the green-gage, 



on the general principles already stated. T. A. Knight (Hort. 

 trans. 3. p. 214.) in an attempt to combine the bulk o£ the yelloiv 



^^|*ale and end of August. Remarkable for its bright fiery red- produced a fruit which partook of both parents; and a good 



^ ^^^^ sour, Rotherham. Wood downy. Fruit small, pur- 

 P . roundish-oblong ; flesh adhering to the stone. A first-rate 



?n ""Ir^S ^^^^^^ ripening in the middle of September. 

 ^^ JSew wine sour. 



^ ^^unier haricot. Ser. ined. 



rJnl 11^^^^ ^ i>?M»25 not sufficiently known, but none of them are 

 T^'^hly worth notice. ^ ^ 



2 Brompton. 

 6 De Canada. 



I Belle de Riom. 

 ^ Gurnet. 



«^e Aubert rouge. 10 

 '5 D hJ > ' ^^^^es's seedling. 



3 Brussels. 4 Buchanan. 



7 Court royal. 

 Dame Auhert violette. 



8 Cydmarine. 9 



Winter 



11 



17 h / blossomed, a Jleurs doubles. 

 .J^^niferline. 18 Elfrv's. 19 Elton. 



13 Deron's. 14 Dittisham. 



variety of the Orleans plum has been raised from seed by J. 

 Wilmot, Hort. trans. 3. p. 392, 



Soil. Plums, according to Miller, should have a middling 

 soil, neither too wet and heavy, nor over light and dry, in either 

 of which extremes they seldom do well, Abercrombie recom- 

 mends any mellow fertile garden or orchard ground ; and where 

 a soil is to be made, " one-half fresh loam, one-fourth sharp 

 sand, one-sixth road stuff", and one-twelfth vegetable remains or 



decomposed dung, or animal matter." 



Site. The plum is cultivated like other indigenous fruit-trees, 



the hardier sorts as standards, and the finer varieties against 

 walls. It is sometimes forced ; but the blossom, like that of the 

 cherry, is diflScult to set, and on the whole it is a fruit not well 



The finer varieties are almost always 



16 Duke of Devonshire, adapted for forcing. 



„ ^ .u Elfry's. 19 Elton. 20 Emperor. 21 PrU- planted against walls, which. Miller says, should have an cast 



^ ^ftcur semidouble. 22 Fall copper. 23 French copper, south-east aspect, which is more kindly to these fruits than a 



