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Flesh yellowish, juicy, sweet, with pleasant subacid flavor; pit free. 

 Grown in western New York. England. 



Empire. Large oval; color dark purple; quality good. Season 

 in Ohio, early September. Not generally grown, but commercially in 

 localities. Domestica. 



Engle. Medium in size to small, roundish oval ; color yellow with 

 traces of green: suture obscure half way round. Flesh firm, close- 

 grained, yellow; flavor rich, quality very good. Matures last of July. 

 About as hardy as Lombard. Domestica. 



Engle bert (Prince Engleberf). Medium, regular, oval; color dark 

 blue with many light-colored dots and blue bloom; stalk medium, 



Englebert. 



slender, inserted in rounded shallow cavity; suture obscure. Tlesh 

 yellow, quality good. Season quite early. Fruit in clusters; freestone. 

 Grown east of lakes and in the South. Domestica. 



Field. Large, oval; color purple with blue bloom; stem one inch 

 long in small narrow cavity. Flesh greenish yellow, quality very good: 

 clingstone. Season, earlier than Bradshaw, of which it is a seedling. 



German Prune. Medium, long oval; sides very unequal, and elon- 

 gated at the top; suture very distinct: color purple with heavy blue 

 bloom, stalk three-quarters of an inch long, curved, slender, inserted at 

 top of fruit without cavity. Flesh firm, greenish yellow, sweet, and 



