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Plums and Plum Culture 



color dark red or purplish; dots several, distinct, yellowish; 

 bloom blue; flesh greenish-yellow; stone medium large, 

 round-oval, blunt, winged, slightly flattened, free; quality 

 fair; midseason. 



Grand Duke. — Fruit obovate; size large to very large; 

 cavity narrow, shallow; stem an inch long; suture rather 

 deep ; color very dark blue ; bloom heavy, blue ; flesh yellow, 

 firm; stone oval, hardly flattened, cling; quality good; season 



GRAND DUKE 



late; tree moderately vigorous, with a spreading, open head. 

 Regarded by many as one of the very best late shipping plums. 



Green Gage. — Fruit spherical : size medium ; cavity shal- 

 low and abrupt; stem medium Ions:: suture faint; color dull 

 greenish-yellow ; dots minute and faint; bloom white; skin 

 thin; flesh white; stone small, round-oval, oblique, pointed, 

 somewhat flattened, usually cling, but sometimes more or less 

 free ; quality good to extra good ; season medium ; tree small. 



