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Gros Damas de Tours. Domestica. i. Quintinye Com. Card. 70. 1699. 2. Duhainel 

 Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:69. 1768. 3. Knoop Fructologie 2:56. 1771. 4. Forsyth 

 Treat. Fr. Trees 19. 1803. 5. Willich Dom. Enc. 4:300. 1803. 6. Miller 

 Card. Diet. 3. 1807. 7. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 145, 147, 1831. 8. Prince Pom. 

 Man. 2:86. 1832. 9. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 917. 1869. 10. Mathieu Nom. 

 Pom. 433. 1889. 



Damas de Tours 10. Damas de Tours Gros 7. Damas de Tours Gros 8, 9, 10. 

 Damas gros de Tours 3. Damas Violet of Tours 4. Great Violet Damask de Tours 5. 

 Great Damask Violet of Tours 6, 10. Great Damask Violet of Tours 9. Great Plum 

 of Tours 7. Great Violet Tours Damask i. Gros Damas 6. Grosse Damascene von 

 Tours 10. Gros Damas de Tours 8, 9, 10. Gros Damas Violet de Tours 6. Largest 

 Damask of Tours 8. Largest Damask of Tours 9, 10. 



For historical notes and description see Pr^coce de Tours. 

 Gros Damas Noir. Domestica? i. Noisette Man. Comp. Jard. 2:500. i860. 



A small mediocre plum mentioned by Noisette as ripening the last of July. 

 Grosse Hative de Rodt. Domestica? Mentioned in Mathieu Nom. Pom. 433. 1889. 

 Grosse Marange. Domestica. i. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 433. 1889. 2. Guide Prat. 

 156, 357. 1895. Hdtive d'Augny i, 2 



This variety was grown by M. Chabardin of Augny near Metz, France, where it 

 is considered very promising because of its high quality and earliness. Fruit medium 

 in size, roundish; purplish; flesh yellowish-green, sweet; quality best of its season; 

 very early. 

 Grosse Rosspauke. Species? i. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 434. 1889. 



Mathieu found it noted in Wiener Garten-Zeitung 287. 1884. 

 Grosse Surpasse. Domestica. i. Can. Exp. Farm Bui. 2d Ser. 3:52. 1900. 2. Can. 

 Exp. Farms Rpt. 432. 1905. 



A small round plum tested at British Coltimbia Experimental Farm ; yellow ; flesh 

 yellow, tender, sweet, pleasant; stone small, clinging; mid-season. 

 Grosse Violette de Grugliasco. Species? Mentioned in Mathieu Nom. Pom. 434. 1889. 

 Griine Battel Zwetsche. Domestica. i. Oberdieck Deut. Obst. Sort. 444. 1881. 2. 

 Mathieu Nom. Pom. 434. 1889. 



Berliner Pflaume 2. Datte Verte 2. Griine Dattelzwetsche i. Griine Insel Pfiaume 

 2 incor. Susina Verdachia Longa 2. Weisse Indische Pflaume 2. 



Mentioned in the preceding references. Griinliche Dattelpflaume von Besangon 

 is given by Guide Pratique, 1895, as a synonym of the Yellow Egg. 

 Griine Herzfonnige. Domestica. i. Kraft Pom. Aust. 2:30, Tab. 176 fig. i. 1796. 



Die grune herzformige Pflaume i. Prune coeur de pigeon verd i. 



An old European variety. Flowers small; fruit heart-shaped, greenish-yellow; 

 flesh yellow, firm; stone uncommonly rough and uneven. 



Griine Zwetsche Von Monrepos. Species? Listed in Mathieu Nom. Pom. 434. 1889. 

 Guilford No, 2, Hortulana mineri. i. III. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 135. 1903 2. Ibid. 422. 1905. 



A seedling of Miner from Illinois. Tree moderately vigorous, productive; fruit 

 yellow, with a pink cheek; good; freestone; mid-season. 



