VARIETIES OF PLUMS 1165 



tinguished from all other plums by their low, spreading habit, flat 

 top, and drooping branches. The wood is brittle a rious de- 

 fect. In common with other Japanese sorts, Burbank is less 

 troubled with curculio and black knot than are the European 

 plums. The fruit should be picked before fully mature if it is to 

 be kept or shipped. The fruit of the trees should always be 

 thinned. 



DIAMOND 



Diamond is a large, handsome, well-formed purple plum but is 

 coarse in flesh and not at all pleasantly flavored. The firm flesh 

 and tough skin of the variety commend it as a market plum, and 

 the trees are large in size, vigorous, hardy, and productive. It 

 is planted largely for the markets where it sells because of its fine 

 appearance. 



DUANE 



Duane is a popular plum because of its large size, well-turned 

 shape, beautiful purple color, and firm, golden flesh. Appearance 

 however, is the only asset of the fruit, for the flesh is dry, tough, 

 sour, and clings to the stone. It is desirable only for culinary pur- 

 poses. The trees excel in size, vigor, and productiveness, and are 

 usually hardy and bear their crops well distributed. Duane is 

 generally found to be a profitable market sort. 



FRENCH 



French is the largest of the Damsons, so large, indeed, as to lead 

 to the belief that it is a hybrid with some Domestica plum, the 

 size of the trees, blossoms, and foliage also leading to such a sup- 

 position. This excellent Damson is largely grown for the market 

 in western New York. Good quality as well as size and appear- 

 ance aid in selling the fruit. The fruit have but one defect in 

 that the pit is large for the amount of flesh. The trees are hardy, 

 l;car abundantly and annually, and carry their foliage so well that 

 fruit and wood usually ripen perfectly even when the trees are not 

 sprayed. The season is a little later than that of the more com- 

 monly grown Shropshire. 



GERMAN PRUNE 



German Prune is characterized by the large, hardy, vigorous, 

 healthy, productive trees, characters so marked that one can say at 



