THE PLUM. 393 



Fruit large, egg-shaped, with a neck, deep-purple, shaded 

 with violet, suture deep, half-round. Flesh rather coarse, melt- 

 ing, pleasant. Freestone. Ripens end of August. (Al. Pom.) 



QlJACKENBOSS. 



Introduced by Mr. Quackenboss, ^f Greenbush, N. Y. A 

 very rapid upright grower, and productive. 



Fruit large, oblong-oval. Skin deep purple, covered with a 

 whitish bloom. Suture scarcely apparent. Stalk short, crook- 

 ed, thin, and set in a slight depressed cavity. Flesh greenish- 

 yellow, sprightly, juicy, a little coarse-grained, sweet and excel- 

 lent. Adheres slightly to the stone. A valuable late market 

 plum, October. (N. Y. Hort. Rev.) 



QUETSCHE DE DoRELLE. 



Fruit medium, oval. Suture small. Skin reddish-purple, 

 with a thin bloom, and thickly covered with grey dots. Flesh 

 greenish, sweet, and pleasant. Adheres to the stone. Ripen*, 

 first of September. 



QUETSCHE, OR GERMAN PRUNE. Thomp. 



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Common Quetsche. Zwetsche. 



True Large German Prune. Quetsche G-rosse. 



Turkish Quetsche. Prune d'Allemagne. . I ac. to 



Leipzic. Quetsche d'Allemagne Grosse. j TJiomp. 



Sweet Prune. Damas Gros. 



Damask. Covetche. J 



Imperatrice Violette. ) 



Imperatrice Violette Grosse. > incorrectly, of some. 



Damas Violet Gros. ) 



So many plums are cultivated under the name of German 

 Prune, that it is difficult to fix this fickle title, a circumstance 

 owing to the fact that the prune frequently comes the same, or 

 nearly the same, from seed, and in prune-growing districts this 

 is a popular way of increasing them, while it, of course, gives 

 rise to many shades of character. It is a valuable class of 

 plums, of fair quality for the table, but most esteemed for dry- 

 ing and preserving abundant bearers, and hanging long on the 

 tree. The common German Prune is described as follows : 



Branches smooth. Fruit long-oval, near two inches long, 

 peculiarly swollen on one side, and drawn out towards the stalk. 

 Suture distinctly marked. Skin purple, with a thick blue 

 bloom. Stalk three-fourths of an inch long, slender, slightly 

 inserted. Flesh firm, green, sweet and pleasant ; separates from 

 the stone, which is flat, very long, and a little curved. Ripens 

 about the 10th of September. 



This prune is, perhaps, the most universal and most valuable 

 fruit tree in Germany, Hungary, Saxony, and all central Europe. 



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