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93, PI. 69. 1894. 21. Guide Prat. j6i, ibi. 1895. 22. CarJ^-n 50:364. 1896. 23. U. S. D. A. Div. 

 Pom. Hid. 10:11. 1901. 24. Baltet Cult. Fr. 4S9, 492 fig. 326, 503. 1908. 



Aprikosenartige Mirabelle 16, 19, 20, 21. Damascena Armeniacea 21. Damascetta Armeniaca 19. 

 DamasVertT. De Mirabelle 21. Gelbe Mirabelle 16, ij, 21. Gelbe Mirabelle 18, 19,20. Geperlte 

 Mirabelle 19. Green Damask ? 3. Kleinste Mirabelle ig. Kleine Mirabelle ig, 20, 21. La Mirabelle 

 9, 19, 20, 21. Lerchenei 19, 20. Little Mirabelle 9, 19, 20. Mirababelle 20. Mirabel 3. Mirabelle 

 abricotc'e 16, ig, 20, 21. Mirabelle 14, ly, ig, 21. Mirabelle Blanche 7. Mirabelle Blattche 14, 16, ig, 

 20, 21. Mirabelle de Metz 13, 19, 20, 24. Mirabelle de Vientie 14, i5, 19, 20, 21. Mirabelle Jaune 7, 8, 

 II, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21. Mirabelle PerU 14, 20. Mirabelle Perlee 7, 16, 19, 20, 21. Mirabelle Petite 

 8, 9, II, 13, 17, 19, 21. Mirabelle prccoce 16, 17, 19, 20?, 21?. Mirabelle Petite 14. Mirabelle 

 Simple ? 7. Mirabelle Verte 16, ?2i. Mirabelle Verte ?7. Petit Drap d'Or 9, 19, 20. PeiiVg Mira- 

 belle 9, 16, 19, 20. Petite Mirabelle 16, 17, 21, 24. P. Damascena Armeniacea 16. Prune de Mira- 

 belle 9, 17, 19. Prune de Mirabelle 10. Small Mirabelle 9. Small Mirabelle 19, 20. Syrische 

 Pflaume 19, 20. The Green Damosine Plum?2. White Mirabelle 14, 16, 19, 21. White Mirable 4. 

 Wiener Mirabelle 19, 20. 



Mirabelle, though described in an American fruit book as early as 

 1832 and mentioned in nearly every pomology since, is hardly known in 

 America. In Europe, especially in France, it is one of the favorite varieties 

 and is in great demand for canning, preserves, compotes, tarts and prunes. 

 The trees of this variety on the grounds of this Station grow very well, 

 producing fine crops of fruit, as it is probable they would do wherever 

 the Damsons can be grown. The small, round, yellow fruits are attractive 

 in appearance, and the sweet, pleasant flavor of the variety shoiild fit it 

 admirably in this country for the pirrposes for -which it is so largely grown 

 by the French. The trees are small but vigorous and healthy, the last two 

 qualities having suggested in Europe their use as stocks, to which purpose 

 they are sometimes put in France when a dwarfing stock is needed. Eiiropean 

 writers say that the variety may be reproduced from seed. 



Mirabelle is a very old plum; it was noted by the pomological writers 

 in the latter part of the Seventeenth Century and since that date it has held 

 a conspicuous place in all of the European plum literature. This variety, 

 though probably sparingly introduced in America at different times, has 

 never been widely cultivated and is not now offered for sale by any of 

 the nurserymen whose catalogs have been consulted for The Plums of 

 New York. 



Tree small, round and open-topped, hardy; branches dark ash-gray, smooth, w-ith 

 numerous, small lenticels; branchlets slender, of medium length, dull brownish-red, 

 thorny, glabrous, with numerous, small, indistinct lenticels; leaf-buds of medium size 

 and length, conical, free. 



Leaves falling early, one and one-half inches wide, three inches long, folded upward, 

 oval, rather thin; upper surface medium green, smooth, with few hairs scattered along 



