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LUCOMBE 



Prunus domestica 



I. Pom. Mag. 3:99. 1830. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 281. 1845. 3. Floy-Lindley Guide 

 Orch. Card. 284, 383. 1846. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 222. 1858. 5. Hogg Fruit Man. 711. 1884. 

 6. Guide Prat. 163, 358. 1895. 7. Waugh Plum Cult. 117. 1901. 8. Budd-Hansen Am. Hon. 

 Man. 320. 1903. 



Incomparable de Lucombe 6. Lucombe's Nonesuch 2, 3, 5. Lucombe's Nonsuch i, 4. L-u- 

 combe's Nonsuch 6, 7. Lucombe's Unvergleichliche 6. Lucombe's Nonesuch 8. Luccombe's None- 

 such 3. Nonsuch 7. Nonesuch 8. 



This old plum has a reputation of high excellence and is well entitled 

 to it. Despite the fact that it must compete for favor with such estimable 

 plums as Reine Claude, Washington and Hand, belonging to the same group 

 with these, it is still much grown in England and is well thought of for 

 home use in America. Hardly in accordance with its reputation, it was 

 rejected by the American Pomological Society in 1858 for a place in its 

 list of fruits. Lucombe originated as a seedling about 1825 with a Mr. Lu- 

 combe of Lucombe, Prince and Company, nurserymen, at Exeter, England, 

 and was first described by Lindley in 1830 in the Pomological Magazine. 



Tree large, of medium vigor, upright-spreading, productive; branches covered 

 with numerous fruit-spurs; twigs very short, with heavy pubescence; leaves one and 

 three-quarters inches wide, three and one-quarter inches long, dark green; margin 

 finely serrate or crenate, with small, dark glands; petiole pubescent, glandless or with 

 one or two small glands usually at the base of the leaf; blooming season intermediate, 

 short; flowers appearing after the leaves; petals with a yellowish tinge as the buds 

 unfold; borne on long naked spurs with tufts of leaves and flowers at the ends, singly 

 or in pairs. 



Fruit mid-season, period of ripening long; one and three-eighths inches by one and 

 one-half inches in size, roundish-oblate or roundish-obovate, greenish-yellow, becoming 

 golden-yellow, indistinctly splashed and streaked with green, covered with thin bloom; 

 flesh golden-yellow, firm, sweet, pleasant, mild; very good; stone free, three-quarters 

 inch by five-eighths inch in size, roundish, slightly necked, with pitted surfaces. 



MAQUOKETA 



Prunus hortulana mineri 



i. Mich. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 290. 1889. 2. la. Hon. Soc. Rpt. 55,83. 1890. 3. Cornell Sta. Bui. 

 38:40. 1892. 4. Mich. Sta. Bui. 118:53. l8 95- 5- ^>id. 123:20. 1895. 6. la. Sta. Bui. 

 31:346. 1895. 7. Wis. Sta. Bui. 63:46. 1897. 8. Budd-Hansen Am. Hon. Man. 298. 1903. 

 9. Ga. Sta. Bui. 67:277. 1904. 10. Ohio Sta. Bui. 162:256, 257. 1905. 



Maquoketa is distinguished as one of the best of the native plums 

 for culinary purposes. Nearly all of the plums brought in from the wild 



