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in his Pomologie Generalc, 1873, states that it first bore the name Brignole 

 Violette, but later was given the name it now bears in honor of Monsieur, 

 Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis XIV. Damas Rouge is an old synonym, 

 though Dvihamel described it as a distinct variety. Hermpflaume is the 

 common name of the Orleans in Germany and Austria, while in France, 

 it is often called the Monsieur. It has never been common in America, 

 yet it was entered on the American Pomological Society catalog list in 1875. 



Tree large, vigorous, hardy, productive, bearing annually; branches grayish, 

 pubescent; leaves large, ovate, with crenate margins; flowers large, blooming early; 

 petals roundish, imbricated. 



Fruit early mid-season; medium in size, roundish-truncate, sides unequal; cavity 

 usually shallow, wide; suture distinct; apex flattened; color dark or purplish-red, 

 overspread with thin bloom, with a sprinkling of pale reddish dots; stem thick, short; 

 skin tender; flesh yellowish, juicy, usually melting when properly matured, sweet near 

 the skin but sprightly toward the center, pleasant-flavored; good; stone free, small, 

 oval, flattened, with roughish surfaces. 



OULLINS 



Pruiius domestica 



I. Hogg Fruit Man. 374. 1S66. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 935. 1869. 3. Pom. France 7: 

 No. 15. 1871. 4. Mas Le Verger 6:43. 1866-73. 5- -^'"- Poyri. Soc. Cat. 38. 1877. 6. Cat. 

 Cong. Pom. France 366. 1887. 7. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 446. 1889. 8. Waugh Plum Cult. 

 117. 1901. 9. Thompson Card. Ass't 4:158. 1901. 



Massot 6, 7. Monstrtieuse d'OuUins 2, 7. Ouillin's Gage 2, 7. Oullins Golden i. Oullin's 

 Golden 2, 9. Oullin's Golden 3, 4, 6, 7. Oullin's Golden Gage 2, 7. Oullins Golden Gage 5. Oul- 

 lin's Green Gage 8. Prune-Massot 3. Reine-Claudc d'Oullins i, 2, 7, 9. Reine-Claude D'Oullins 

 3, 4, 6. Reine-Claude Precoce i, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9. Reine-Claude von Oullins 7. Roi-Claude 3, 7. 



Oullins came to America with the best of recommendations from 

 European growers but it has fallen so far short of its reputation in Europe 

 that it was dropped from the fruit list of the American Pomological Society 

 and is gradually disappearing from cultivation. The fault is in the fruit 

 which is but indifferent in quality for a plum of the Reine Claude group. 

 In Europe the variety is rated as one of the best dessert sorts; in America 

 it is hardly second-rate in quality. This difference may be due to differ- 

 ences in climate and soil; more probably, it is due to the greater number 

 of better Reine Claude varieties grown in America with which it must 

 compete. Hand, Jefferson, Washington, McLaughlin, Yellow Gage, Spauld- 

 ing and Imperial Gage, the cream of the Reine Claude plums, are all Amer- 

 icans similar to Oullins but much better in quality. Oullins is hardly 

 surpassed by any of its group in tree -characters and might well be used 



