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THE MOROCCO PLUM. 



Early Black |Damask, commonly called the Morocco Plum. 



Langley, t. 20. f. 3. Forsyth, p. 15. 

 Morocco. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 175. 

 Black Morocco "1 



Black Damask V of various Collections. 

 Early Damask J 



This is one of the very best of our early Plums, 

 and has long been an inhabitant of our Gardens. In 

 the time of Langley it was evidently common and 

 well known. It is not, however, so much culti- 

 vated now as formerly, for which reason a figure 

 of it is here given, in order that it may not be en- 

 tirely lost sight of. 



It is very hardy, bears well as a standard, and 

 ripens fully a month before the Orleans, coming 

 in at the beginning of August. The juice is un- 

 usually rich. 



Wood downy. 



Leaves middle-sized, bluntly serrated, rather 

 light green, shining on the upper surface. Stalks 

 from half an inch to an inch long, with globose 

 glands. 



Flowers large. 



Fruit middle-sized, roundish, its suture mode- 

 rately depressed along one side ; the Apex a little 

 flattened; the Stalk thick, scarcely half an inch 



