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Plums and Plum Culture 



stone medium size, oval, nearly free; quality good; season 

 medium late. 



Originated at Mt Tabor, Oregon, with Sluman & Nunn. 



Paquet. — Fruit oval ; size very large ; cavity large ; stem 

 about an inch long ; suture moderate ; apex truncated ; color 

 yellow, washed with red; dots many, yellow; bloom bluish; 

 skin thick; flesh yellow; stone oval, semi-cling; quality very 

 good ; season early. 



Originated in 1889 with Peter Paquet, Oregon City, Oregon. 



Peach. — Fruit shaped like 

 a peach ; size very large ; 

 cavity shallow, narrow ; 

 stem short, stout ; suture 

 shallow ; apex depressed ; 

 color light brownish-red ; 

 dots dark colored; bloom 

 pale ; flesh pale yellow ; 

 stone free ; flavor sprightly 

 and pleasant ; quality good ; 

 season early. Description 

 adapted from Downing. 



This is undoubtedly the 

 Prune Peche, long known 

 in France and neighboring 

 countries. It is mentioned 

 in all the older works on 

 American pomology, but 

 does not seem to be grown 

 at present. 



Pearl. — A seedling of 

 Agen originated by Luther 

 Burbank ; described as larg- 

 er than the parent, ovoid, 

 flattened, white semi-trans- 

 parent, with a heavy, white 

 bloom. 



Peters (Peters Yellow 

 Gage). — Fruit round-oval; size medium to large; cavity me- 

 dium, shallow, abrupt : stem long, pubescent ; suture shallow ; 

 apex slightly depressed ; color greenish-yellow, sometimes 

 with a slight blush; dots many, yellow; bloom white; skin 

 thin : flesh greenish-yellow ; stone medium large, oval, pointed, 

 hardly flattened, cling; quality good to best; season early; tree 

 moderately vigorous and upright. 



A good amateur variety of the Green Gage type. 



Pond (Pond's Seedling, Fonthill). — Fruit obovate, with 

 a short neck ; size very large ; cavity shallow, narrow, abrupt ; 



PETERS 



