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Plums and Plum Culture 



Fotheringham. — Fruit obovate ; size medium; suture 

 distinct; color reddish-purple; bloom bluish; flesh greenish- 

 yellow ; stone free ; quality good ; season medium. 



An old English variety, little grown here. 



Galopin (Violette de Galopin). — Fruit spherical or 

 slightly oblate; size medium; cavity shallow, rounded; stem 

 short and stout ; suture shallow : color blue ; dots many, con- 

 spicuous ; bloom blue ; flesh yellow ; stone medium size, oval, 

 with a short neck, 

 slightly flattened, near- 

 ly free ; quality fair to 

 good; tree rather poor 

 and straggling. 



This European va- 

 riety does not seem to 

 be known in this coun- 

 try, but I have ven- 

 tured to include this 

 description, made from 

 a specimen in the col- 

 lection of Ellwanger & 

 Barry, Rochester, New 

 York. 



Giant (Giant 

 Prune). — A very large 

 plum introduced by 

 Luther Burbank in 

 1893. Wickson thus 

 describes it: "Very 

 large, dark crimson on 

 yellow ground ; flesh 

 yellow; flavor good; duane 



freestone ; a shipping- 

 plum ; rather disappointing as a drying plum." 



German Prune. — Fruit long oval ; size small to medium ; 

 cavity very shallow; stem rather slender, medium long; suture 

 hardly more than a line ; apex somewhat pointed ; color blue ; 

 dots a few, scattered; bloom blue; flesh greenish or slightly 

 yellow; stone small, oval, pointed, moderately flattened, very 

 free ; quality hardly more than fair ; season medium ; tree 

 strong, tall grower, productive. 



One of the very oldest varieties known, being grown over 

 wide areas in Europe since before the beginning of horticul- 

 tural history. It has often been grown from seed, and this no 

 doubt accounts for the fact that there are a number of dif- 

 ferent plums passing under the name of German Prune. The 

 foregoing description is made from the stock tree of Ellwanger 



