310 THE PLUM. 



Branches smooth. Fruit 

 quite large, long-oval, a little 

 one-sided, with an obscure 

 suture. Stalk very long, and 

 slender, set in a very trifling 

 depression. Skin dark pur- 

 ple, with a thick blue bloom. 

 Flesh greenish-yellow, firm, 

 rather juicy, with a sweet, 

 sprightly, pleasant flavour. 

 It separates pretty readily 

 from the stone, which is long 

 and pointed. First to last of 

 September. Ripens gradu- 

 ally, and bears carriage well. 



85. QUEEN MOTHER. Thomp. 

 Ray. Lind. 



Red Queen Mother. 

 Pigeon's Heart. 

 Damas Violet. 



A neat little reddish plum, 

 long known in European 

 Fig. 128. Manning's Long Blue Prune, gardens. Branches smooth, 

 rather feeble in growth. Fruit rather small, round, about an 

 inch in diameter. Skin dark, purplish-red in the sun, pale red- 

 dish amber in the shade, with many reddish dots. Stalk half an 

 inch long. Flesh yellow, sweet and rich, separating freely 

 from the stone, which is quite small. September. 



86. QUETSCHE, OR GERMAN PRUNE. Thomp. 



Common Quetsche. Zwetsche. 



True Large German Prune. Quetsche Grosse. 



Turkish Quetsche. Prune d'Allemagne. \ ac.to 



Leipzic. Quetsche d'Allemagne Grosse. J Thomp 



Sweet Prune. Damas Gros. 



Damask. Covetche. 



Imperatrice Violette. ) 



Imperatrice Violette Grosse. > incorrectly, of some. 



Damas Violet Gros. ) 



So many plums are cultivated under the name of German 

 Prune, that it is difficult to fix this fickle title, a circumstance 

 owing to the fact that the prune frequently comes the same, or 

 nearly the same, from seed, and in prune growing districts this 

 is a popular way of increasing them, while it, of course, gives 

 rise to many shades of character. It is a valuable class of 

 plums, of fair quality for the table, but most esteemed for dry 



