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FURST 

 Prunus domestica 



I. Mas Le Verger 6:4;. 1873. 2. Lange Allgem. Garten. 2:421. 1879. 3- Oberdieck DetU- 

 Obst. Sort. 413. i88i. 4. Lauche DetU. Pom. 8, PI. 1882. 5. Guide Prat. 159, 363. 1895. 



Eugen Fursts FrUhzwctschc 4, 5. Ffirst's Frtihzwetsche 2, 3, 4- Fiirst's Friihzwctsclie i, 4, 

 5. Quetsche Pr&oce de Ffirst i, 5. 



Furst would undoubtedly be well worthy of very general cultivation 

 in plum orchards were it not for the fact that it is very similar to the 

 Italian Prune. The two fruits differ only in season, the Furst being a few 

 days earlier, and in the tendency of the variety imder discussion to shrivel 

 about the neck. It may be that Furst will succeed in some localities where 

 the Italian Prune is not a success. 



Ftirst was propagated by the Baron of Trauttenberg, Prague, Bohemia, 

 who had received it from Professor Pater Hackl, Leitmeritz, Bohemia, 

 vinder the name Furst, given in honor of Eugene Ftirst, son of the founder 

 of the School of Horticulture of Frauendorf, Bavaria. Furst Damson has 

 been confused with this variety, but it is a different plum. Its fruits are 

 distinctly necked and much inferior in quality, and its shoots are glabrous, 

 while in this variety they are not. The United States Department of Agri- 

 culture introduced Furst in 1901 and through them this Station received 

 cions for testing. 



Tree of medium size, round-topped, productive; branchlets thick, marked with 

 slight scarf-skin; leaf -scars very prominent; leaves folded upward, obovate, two and 

 one-half inches wide, four and one-half inches long; margin doubly serrate or almost 

 crenate, eglandular or with small dark glands; petiole thick, pubescent, glandless 

 or with from one to three globose glands usually on the stalk; blooming season late; 

 flowers one and one-eighth inches across, white, the opening buds tipped with yellow; 

 borne on lateral buds and spurs, singly or in twos. 



Fruit late; one and seven-eighths inches by one and one-half inches in size, 

 oval, slightly necked, purplish-black, covered with thick bloom; dots numerous, reddish, 

 conspicuous; stem thick; flesh greenish-yellow, juicy, very fibrous, firm, sweet, mild, 

 with pleasant aroma; good to very good; stone one and one-eighths inches by five- 

 eighths inch in size, free, irregular-oval, with rather long, tapering, oblique apex, the 

 surfaces heavily pitted; ventral suture prominent, often winged; dorsal suture wide. 



GEORGESON 



Primus iri flora 



I. Ga. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 52, 99. i88g. 2. Am. Gard. 12:308, 501, 574. 1891. 3. Ibid. 13:700. 

 1892. 4. Cornell Sta. Bui. 62:23, 27. 1894. 5. Tex. Sta. Bui. 32:488, 489. 1894. 6. Ga. Hort. 



