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The Damson Plums Named and Described 



CJ LUSTER.— Under the name of Cluster 

 ! Damson, several New York growers 

 ^ have a fine, prolific, round, rather small 

 Q plum of this class, the history of which 

 I do not know. The variety seems to 

 be an excellent one for commercial 

 purposes. 



Danish Damson. — Craig (Iowa ex- 

 periment station) gives the following 

 notes : "Fruit, round, three-fourths to 

 seven-eighths of an inch in diameter, 

 beautiful light blue ; best quality for 

 canning, and very good to eat out of hand ; colors four weeks 

 before ripe ; freestone ; season first or second week in Septem- 

 ber ; tree upright grower, hardy, hardiest of Domesticas here 

 tested; bears young and regularly; seems as hardy in bud as 

 Americanas. (H. Knudson, Springfield, Minnesota.) 



"Scions were imported from Denmark in the spring of 

 1884 by H. Knudson and introduced by him a few years later." 



Eugen Furst. — Fruit pear-shaped, with a curious little 

 neck; size small; cavity shallow, abrupt; stem slender; 

 suture obsolete : apex slightly pointed ; color blue ; dots none; 

 bloom thick, blue : skin tough ; flesh greenish yellow ; stone 



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