THE ALLEGHANY SLOE (Prunus Alleghaniensis, Port) 

 A shrub or small tree with gnarled, thorny branches, that 

 spreads in thickets on mountain slopes, near watercourses, 

 on both sides of the Allegheny Mountains, in Pennsylvania. 

 Fruit black, small, juicy, sour, fine-flavored when made into 

 jams, jellies, and preserves. The Black Sloe (Prunus umbellata 

 Ell.), found on sandy bottom land, near the coast from South 

 Carolina all the way to the Mississippi delta, and up the river 

 to Arkansas, supplies the tart wild fruit to local markets, 

 where people far south are quite as fond of preserves made of 

 their black sloe as are the Pennsylvanians. The drupes are 

 pea size in both species. 



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