246 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



Autriche Violette {Pr. de) 8. Blatie Battel Pflaume&. Blue Egg- Plum ? 2. Dattede Hungrie 13. 

 Dattelzutetsche 6. Datte Violette 8. Date de Hongrie 14. Datte de Hongrie 4, 14. Date Plum 7. 

 D'Autriche 3. Friihe Dattelzwetsche 10. Grosse u. Lange Frith Zwetsche 8. Crosse Fruh 

 Zwetsche 8. Hungarian Date 9. Hungarian Prune ? 3, 14. Hungarica 7. Hungarian Prune 

 4, II, 12. Hungarian Plum 2. Lange Violette Battel Zwetsche 8. Osterreichische Pflaume 8. 

 Prune-Datie 3, 6. Prune Datte Violette 3. . Prune d' Autriche 6, 8. Quetsche de Hongrie 8. Qitetsche 

 Datte Violette 8. Quetsche Datte 6, 8. Quetsche-Datte Violette 6. Quetsche Hongroise i. Quetsche 

 de Hongrie 6. Sabel Pflaume 8. Spate Dattel Pflaume 8. Ungarische Pflaume 8. Ungarische 

 Dattelzwetsche 5. Ungarishe Sabel Pflaume 8. Violette Dattelzwetsche 6. Violette Dattelzwetsche 

 8. Turkische Zwetsche 8. Ungarische Zwetsche 8. Virginische Ludwig's Pflaume 8. 



This plum, representing a type hardly known in America, may be a 

 descendant of a species distinct from Prunus domestica, and if not, must 

 at least be considered a well-marked division of the species named. It 

 differs but little from typical Domestica varieties in habit of gro\vth but 

 the leaves are smaller, distinctly folded, and droop, giving an aspect to 

 the tree distinct from the Domesticas in general. But it is the fruit that 

 differs most. Fruit and stone are more elongated than in other varieties 

 of its supposed species and the stone is larger, flatter, more pitted and 

 more pointed at the base and apex. The stem, too, is longer than in the 

 average Domestica. These differences in leaf, fruit and pit may be well 

 seen if the color-plate of this variety be compared with those of well-recog- 

 nized Domesticas. It is doubtful if Hungarian is worth cultivating in 

 New York though it is larger than the commonly grown German Prune, 

 with which it must be compared, and is fully equal if not better in quality 

 but its type is unknown and consumers hesitate to buy the unknown. 

 It is well worth a place in private collections. 



Nothing is known of the history of this plum other than that it has 

 been long under cultivation and that, as its name suggests, it came from 

 Hungary. As in the case of many of the varieties which came from Hiin- 

 gary there are several strains of this plum. The variety that is known in 

 America as Hungarian was reported by Downing in 1876, as originating 

 in Belgium, a mistake, as this is known to have been widely spread for a 

 long time in Europe and European authorities trace it back to Hungary. 

 The Ungarish of Budd, the Hungarian Prune of the Pacific Coast which 

 is Pond Seedling, and the Date Plum, a yellow plum of DowTiing, all pass- 

 ing tinder the name " Hungarian," are distinct varieties. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, dense-topped, hardy, productive; branches 

 ash-gray, smooth, with few, small lenticels; branchlets thick, long, with intemodes of 

 average length, greenish-red changing to brownish-red, dull, sparsely pubescent, with few, 

 small, inconspicuous lenticels; leaf-buds of medium size and length, conical, appressed. 



