Twentieth Century Fruits 



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EPOCH 



A New Hardy Plum— "Epoch" 



"Epoch" should be one of the hardiest of all known plums as it is 

 a cross of the western Sand Cherry (Prunus Besseyi) and America plum, 

 both being about as near "Arctic" plums as can be mentioned. 



The tree is a compact grower, dwarf, with dark brown wood, which 

 always, without fail, produces ropes of fruit, each fruit one and a half 

 inches in diameter, beautiful crimson, with shades and dots of yellow. 

 Flesh pure deep yellow, firm with a rich cranberry flavor, but sweetes, 

 and when ripe very good. Ripens August 15th. The youngest, as well as 

 the oldest, trees literally cover themselves with fruit, which keeps remark- 

 ably. Probably the most productive and best of all the "Iron Clad," 

 extremely hardy dwarf plums. 



Trees, each $1; two, $1.75; per ten, $7. 



