Notes Upon Plums. 



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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 1 2th. 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 habit. 



