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Quetsche d'Allemagne Grosse 3, 5, n, 17, 19. Quetsche Commune 19. Quetsche d'Allemagne 

 3, 17, 19. Quetsche D'Allemagne 13. Quetsche des Allemands 7. Quetsche Grosse 3, 5, 17, 19. 

 Quelsche de Lorraine 13, 14, 17, 19. Quetsche de Metz 13, 16, 17, 19. Quetsche Domestique 14. 

 Quetsche de Malogne 13. 17, 19. Quetzen 6, 17. Sweet Prune 5, n, 12, 13, 17, 19. Teutsche blaue 

 Zwelsche 16, 17, 19. Wahre Zwetsche 16. Wetschen 13, 17, 19. 7>M<? Large German Prune 4, 5, 

 17, 19. Turkish Quetsche 5, n, 12, 13, 17, 19. Zwespe 17, 19. Zwelsche 3, 5, 7, n, 12, 13, 14, 17, 

 19. Zwetschen 4. Zwetschke 3, n, 17, 19. 



Although one of the oldest plums under cultivation, probably the 

 oldest of the prune type, the German Prune is still as largely grown, the 

 world over, as any; and is seemingly more widely disseminated than any 

 other plum. It is a little difficult, in America at least, to see why this 

 fruit holds its popularity so long, for it is surpassed by other plums 

 in many horticultural characters, and when all of its characters, most 

 of which are very good, are combined there are still plums which it 

 does not excel. In most of the attributes which gratify the senses, color, 

 size, shape, taste and smell, it falls below expectations for a plum so uni- 

 versally planted. Undoubtedly the wide distribution of this plum is due 

 somewhat to its many variations. The fruit comes almost true to seed 

 and is often propagated by planting pits, a practice which has given many 

 slightly different strains of this variety, each with somewhat different 

 adaptations. 



In the Old World the number of strains of this plum, especially in 

 Germany, is legion, so many that it is probably impossible to segregate 

 them at this late date. In America, while there are a number of these 

 more or less distinct strains it is yet possible to distinguish the chief ones. 

 In New York, the most commonly grown German Prune is the Rochester 

 strain and since it agrees most closely with the fruit described in the best 

 works on pomology, it is the strain described and illustrated in this work. 

 The trees from which this description was made came from Ellwanger 

 and Barry, Rochester, New York, who have long maintained a stock tree 

 of this strain. Another German Prune, fruit of which we have not been 

 able to obtain, is the Dansville strain grown in the nurseries of Dansville, 

 New York. Still another of these plums is the Weedsport German Prune ' 

 so like the Rochester type as to be hardly worth distinguishing. The 

 Latz German Prune is a very distinct strain; it is larger, thicker and 

 broader than the type here described and is more of a clingstone. In 

 some respects this is the best of the German Prunes. All accounts agree 



1 Introduced by Wiley and Company of Cayuga, New York in 1892. See Cornell Sta. Bui. 

 131:193, fig. 47. 1898. 



