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ready sale. It requires root-pruning every two years, in order to make it 

 productive. Branches, smooth. Fruit, small, round, yellow, and red, 

 shaded and mottled ; flesh, greenish, juicy, pleasant, adhering closely to an 

 oval stone; stalk, short; cavity, narrow. ]\Iiddleof July. The Chickasaw 

 Plum [Prunus Chicasi) is very similar to this. 



Columbia. 

 Columbian Gago. 

 American. Valuable market sort, productive, succeeds well South ; 

 branches downy. Fruit, large, globular, one side enlarged; skin, brownish 

 purplish, with fawn-colored specks, blue bloom ; flesh, orange, rather coarse, 

 dry but sugary, separates freely from stone, which is small, compressed , 

 stalkj an inch long; cavity, small, narrow. Last August. 



Cooper. 



Cooper's Eed, [ Cooper's Large Eed, | Cooper's Large American. 



American. Described by Coxe. in 1817, as grown from a stone of Or- 

 leans. Some writers state it to be identical with '• Smith's Orleans :" but 

 we do not so consider it. Fruit, large, deep purple, with a bloom : suture, 

 shallow and broad ; stem, three-quarters inch long ; flesh, coarse, yellow ; 

 '• good." Last August. 



Cruger's Scarlet. 



Cruger's, j Cruger's Seedling, ] Cruger's Scarlet Gage. 



American. Productive, and comparatively free from attacks of curculio , 

 branches, downy. Fruit, little above medium, roundish oval ; skin, lilao 

 red, with thin bluish bloom and yellow dots, in dark shade one side, pale 

 fawn color : flesh, orange, rather dry, rich, separates free from stone ; stalk, 

 half-inch long: basin, shallow. Last August. 



Dana's Yellow Gage. 

 American. Branches, downy. Fruit, medium, oval, pale yellow; flesh, 

 yellowish. Cling-stone. September. 



De Delice. 



Foreign. New ; branches, smooth. Fruit, medium, roundish oval, slight 

 neck, little swollen one side; suture, nearly indistinct; skin, green, marb- 

 led and shaded with violet, and covered with thin bloom ; stalk, medium 

 length and size ; flesh, orange yellow, juicy, melting, sugary, rich flavor, 

 adheres slightly to the stone. September. 



De Montfort. 



Foreign. Branches, downy. Fruit, above medium, roundish, light pur- 

 ple, spotted with brownish yellow, and with blue bloom ; flesh, light yel- 

 lov/, rich; when fully ripe parts freely from stone; stalk, half-inch long. 

 Middle August. 



Deniston's Red. 



American. Branches, smooth. Fruit, medium, roundish oval ; suture, 

 half round ; skin, light red, with fawn-colored dots, bloom, thin ; flesh, am- 

 ber color, separates freely from a small, oval, compressed stone ; stalk, 

 long, slender. Last August. 

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