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Tree medium in size and vigor, upright-spreading or broad-vasiform, not always 

 hardy, productive; branches roughish, sHghtly thorny, often with bark cracked longi- 

 tudinally, zigzag, dark ash-gray; branchlets glabrous, with characteristic raised lenticels; 

 leaf-scars enlarged; leaves folded upward, broadly oblanceolate or obovate, one and 

 three-eighT;hs inches wide, three and three-quarters inches long, thin; margin crenate 

 or serrate, with small, amber glands; petiole five-eighths inch long, reddish, with 

 from one to ten brownish-red glands usually on the stalk; blooming season early 

 to medium, of average length; flowers appearing before the leaves; borne in clusters 

 on lateral spurs, in pairs or in threes; petals pinkish at the base; anthers reddish; 

 pistil longer than the stamens. 



Fruit early, ripening period short; one and five-eighths inches in diameter, roundish- 

 cordate; cavity deep, wide, usually with concentric, russet lines; color greenish-yellow 

 changing to deep yellow as the fruit reaches full maturity, with thin bloom; fiesh golden- 

 yellow, fibrous, firm, sweetish except near the center; fair to good; stone clinging, 

 five-eighths inch by one-half inch in size, oval, turgid, with pitted surfaces; ventral 

 suture broad, slightly ribbed; dorsal suture acute. 



GERMAN PRUNE 



Piunns domestica 



I. Knoop Fructologie 2:53, 61. 1771. 2. O^xe CuU. Fr. Trees 235, fig. 7. 1817. 3. Land. 

 Hort. Soc. Cat. 152. 1831. 4. Prince Pom. Man. 2:77, 78. 1832. 5. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 

 310. 1845. 6. Ploy-Lindley Guide Orch. Card. 286, 383. 1846. 7. Poiteau Pom. Franc. 1:1846. 

 8. Thomas Am. Fruit CuU. 335. 1849. 9- ^w. Pom. Soc. Cat. 214. 1856. 10. Hooper W. Fr. 

 Book 245. 1857. "• Thompson Card. Ass't 519. 1859. 12. Hogg Fruit Man. 378. 1866. 

 13. Pom. France 7:No. 17. 1871. 14. Mas Pom. Gen. 2:171. 1873. ^S- Lange Allgem. Garten. 

 2:418. 1879. 16. Lauche Deut. Pom. 1:1882. 17. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 434. 1889. 18. Wickson 

 Cal. Fruits 355. 1891. 19. Guide Prat. 155, 362. 1895. 20. Cornell Sta. Bui. 131:185, fig. 43. 

 1897. 21. Oregon Sta. Bui. 45:29 fig. 1897. 22. Waugh Plum CuU. 102. 1901. 23. Ohio Sta. Bui. 

 162: 254, 255. 1905. 



Altesse ordinaire 13, 17, 19. Backpflaume 17, 19. Bauernpflaum^ 17, 19. Common Quetsche 

 3. S- II. 17. 18, 19. Couetsche 4, 19. Couetche 17. Cou£tch 13, 19. Couetsche Ordinaire 17, 19. 

 Covetche 5. Covetsche 17. Damas Gros 3, 5, 11, 17, 19. Damask 3, 5, 11, 17, 19. Damas Long i. 

 Damas Violet of some 3, 11, 17, 19. Damas Violet Gros of some 3, 5, 11, 17, 19. Deutsche Blaue 

 Herbstzwetsche 17, 19. Die Hauszwetsche 19. D'Allemagne 19. Die Hauszwetsche 16. Dutch 

 Prune 10. Early Russian 11, 12, 13, 17, 19. Enkelde Backspruim 17. Enkelde Blackpruim 19. 

 Fellemberg 13, 17 incor., 19. Gemeine Zwetsche 13, 14, 17, 19. Gemeine Hauswetsche 14. German 

 Plum 4, 14. German Prune 3, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 19. German Quetsche 12, 13, 17, 19. Grosse 

 German Prune i. Grosse Hauspflaume ly, ig. Hauszwetsche 15. Hauszwetsche 13, 14, 16. Haus- 

 pflaume 14, 17. Imperatrice Violette Grosse of some 3, 5, 11, 17, 19. Imperatrice Violette of some 

 3' 5. II. 13. 17. 19- Koetsche 13, 17, 19. Large German Prune 4, 17. Leipzig 3, 12, 13, 17, 19. 

 Leipzic 5. Leipziger Zwetsche 16, 17, 19. Monsieur tardif ? 19. Monsieur Tardif 17. Prune 

 d'Allemagne la commune 4. Prune d'Allemagne 3, 3. n, 12. 13. 16, 17. Prune d'Altesse 1 

 Prune Imperatrice Violette 7. Prune Plum ? 2. Prune Allemand 4. Prunier AUemand 4 

 Prune Plum 4. Prune Quetsch 7. Prunus Oeconomica 17. Prune Zwetschen 14. Quastche 7 

 Quetsch 7, 13, 19. Quetsche 4, 6, 8, 14, 17, 19. Quetsche ? i, 3, 5, 6, 11, 12. Quetsch Allemande i 

 Quetsch Hongroise i. Quetschen 4. Quetcshe Commune 4, 13, 14, 16, 17. Quetsch Longue ? i 



