THE PLUM. 395 
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.) , 
biel ™ ; QUACKENBOsS, arte Ip 
~ Introduced by Mr. Quackenboss, of 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, little coarse-grained, sweet and excel- 
lent. Adheres slightly to the stone. A valuable late market 
plum, October. (N.Y. Hort. Rev.) 
QuEtTscHE pre DoreE.Ltz. 
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. Ripens 
first of September. 
_ Querscaz, on German Prone. Thomp.’ 
Vommon Quetsche. Zwetsche. 
True Large German Prune, Quetsche Grosse. 
Turkish Quetsche. Prune d’Allemagne. ac. to 
Leipzic. . Quetsche d’Allemagne Grosse. { Zhomp. ' 
Sweet Prune. Damas Gros. 
Damask. : Covetche. 
Imperatrice Violette. 
Imperatrice Violette Grosse. } incorrectly, of some. 
Damas Violet Gros. 
So m4ny plums are cultivated under the name of German 
Prune, that it is difficult to fix this fickle title, a circumstanre 
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 mgny 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, 
eculiarly swollen on one side, and drawn out towards the stalk. 
atara distinetly 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 fiat, very long, and a little curved. Ripens 
about the 10th of September, 
This prune is, perhaps, the most universal and most valuable 
it.tree in Germany, Hungary, Saxony, and all central Europe, 
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