106 Plums and Plum Culture 



.color dark red or purplish ; dots several, distinct, yellowish ; 

 bloom blue ; flesh greenish-yellow ; stone medium large, 

 round-oval, blunt, winged, slightly flattened, free; quality 

 fair; midseason. 



GRAND DUKE. Fruit obovate; size large to very large; 

 cavity narrow, shallow ; stem an inch long ; suture rather 

 deep ; color very dark blue ; bloom heavy, blue ; flesh yellow, 

 firm; stone oval, hardly flattened, cling; quality good; season 



GRAND DUKE 



late; tree moderately vigorous, with a spreading, open head. 

 Regarded by many as one of the very best late shipping plums. 

 GREEN GAGE. Fruit spherical ; size medium : cavity shal- 

 low and abrupt; stem medium long: suture faint: color dull 

 greenish-yellow; dots minute and faint; bloom white; skin 

 thin; flesh white; stone small, round-oval, oblique, pointed 

 somewhat flattened, usually cling, but sometimes more or less 

 free ; quality good to extra good : season medium ; tree small 



