Are Highest In Quality—Earliest To Bear—Greatest In Value 
B ountiful R id e 
FRUIT TRES 
PLUM TREES 
Plant More Plums As An Added Profit Maker 
Statistics Show We Are Not Growing Enough Plums to 
Supply The Market Demand in The East. 
Plant This Year. 
The Plum, like the Pear and other finer fruits suc- 
ceeds best in heavy soil with some clay, and being al- 
most free from disease, they can be grown very profit- 
ably. The finer kinds are excellent dessert fruits, of 
rich and luscious flavor; for cooking and canning they 
are unsurpassed. 
PLUMS (AIl Varieties) 
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PLEASE NOTE 
All varieties of Plums are extremely scarce for 
Fall 1943 and Spring 1944. 
We reserve the right to limit quantities and all 
orders will be accepted subject to stock in hand 
when received. Place your order early and avoid 
disappointment. 
STANLE A cross between Agen and Grand 
Duke. The fruit is of the prune type, 
excellent for cooking or eating out of hand. The tree is 
healthy, vigorous and produces full crops annually. 
Fruit large in size, dark blue with heavy bloom; flesh, 
greenish-yellow, juicy, fine-grained, tender, firm, sweet, 
pleasant; quality good to very good. Freestone. Mid- 
season. Stanley is one of the New York Experiment 
Station’s prize plums. 
BRADSHAW Due to very large size, fine dark 
violet-red color, good shipping and 
keeping ability the Bradshaw has continued to grow 
in popularity. The flesh is yellowish green, juicy and 
pleasing to the taste. The tree is very vigorous, erect 
and productive. 
FELLEMBURG OR ITALIAN PRUNE 
Our most popular Commercial plum. It succeeds under 
most all climatic and soil conditions. The fruit is 
dark purple with a dark blue bloom, medium to large 
size, Oval, pointed and tapering. The flesh is juicy and 
delicious and it is very fine for drying and canning. 
It is fast replacing the German prune in commercial 
plum orchards. 
GERMAN PRUNE A valuable Plum of fair 
i quality for dessert, but 
most esteemed for drying and preserving. Large, long, 
and pleasant, separating from the stone. Moderate to 
vigorous in growth. September. 
Large, oval, yellowish- 
IMPERIAL GAGE green with marbled 
green stripes, havy white bloom, flesh greenish, juicy, 
melting, rich and best quality; tree upright and vigor- 
ous. September. 
LOMBARD Medium, roundish-oval, violet red, 
juicy and pleasant; adheres to stone; 
valuable market sort, hardy, and adapted to light soils; 
a reasonably sure cropper. 
Fruit oval; tree 
SHROPSHIRE DAMSON $3 Fruit (aval; tree 
and enormously productive; fruit of medium size, pro- 
duced in thick clusters or groups, dark purple color, 
RAAG Originated in eastern 
esteemed for preserving. 
ARASOR : ; : 
AMSON Indiana and is said 
BLUE REX D 
of all Damsons yet introduced. The 
to be the finest 
tree seems to be hardy, is fast growing and productive. 
The fruit is about the same size as Shropshire but 
ripens ten days earlier, is high in quality and of better 
appearance than the old type Damsons. We recom- 
mend it for trial. 1 year trees only. : 
NOTE—Plums seem to be generally self-fertile but 
produce better when other varieties are intermixed. 
Japanese varieties have been found to be somewhat 
self-fertile. Abundance is considered one of the best 
general pollenizers. 
FRENCH DAMSON Vigorous grower. Fruits 
are large, fine quality, 
and a beautiful plum. One of the best of its Group and 
proving a money maker for the large grower. Bears 
abundantly, blooms late and is resistant to late frosts 
and very resistant to Brown Rot. Hangs to tree well 
even when full ripe, ripening little later than Shropshire 
Damson. 1 year trees only. 
PACIFIC A very large, bluish-colored midseason, 
freestone plum of good quality. It is 
giving a good account of itself in trial orchards. 
Worthy of planting. 1 year trees only. 
EARLY ITALIAN PRUNE 22, Pete ripen. 
ing two weeks earlier. Same type, size, quaiity and 
color. Ripening early as it does it should be a profit- 
able addition to the Prune family of plums. 
IMPERIAL EPINEUSE 3? tid bitte Pye 
Reddish purple, tender, sweet, juicy, and one of the 
best flavored of all Old World Plums. Ripens late, 
tree moderately vigorous. Requires cross pollination. 
Trees very limited. 
REINE CLAUDE Best known and possibly the 
most widely planted variety 
of the “Green Gage” group. Fruit medium size, cling- 
stone, greenish yellow, flesh is juicy, very mild and 
sweet and is in great demand for local trade or home 
use. Tree is moderately vigorous. 
ALBION Grand Duke type but fruits are larger 
and better quality. Tree is strong, vig- 
orous and productive. Ripens very late and one of the 
best of the new plums. 
HALL Cross between Golden Drop and Grand Duke. 
Resembles Grand Duke, is very large and 
handsome and fine flavor. Tree medium size and very 
productive. A fine, large, blue plum. 
ORIENTAL PLUMS 
METHLEY A recent introduction which is rapidly 
gaining popularity due to its fine qual- 
ity and handsome appearance. The fruit is medium to 
large in size, reddish purple in color with red flesh. It 
is juicy, sweet and of distinctive flavor. The tree is 
vigorous and upright in growth habit. Does well on 
most types of soil and is a heavy annual bearer. 
Largest of all Oriental Plums. Tree 
WICKSON upright in growth. bearing good 
crops under proper conditions. Fruit large, dark red 
over a yellow ground, splashed and mottled with dark- 
er red. Flesh amber yellow, juicy, firm, pleasant and 
sweet in flavor. 
ABUNDANCE One of the best Oriental Plums. 
Tree is a very rapid grower, 
healthy, and comes into bearing quite young and yields 
abundantly; medium size, rich, bright cherry red with 
distinct bloom and highly perfumed; flesh light yellow, 
juicy and tender, and excellent quality. Tree vigorous 
A typical Ital- 
An old French plum 
and hardy. 
BURBANK Medium to large, orange-yellow, dot- 
ted and marbled with red, flesh meaty, 
yellow, sweet and good; valuable for eanning and a 
good market plum. Hardy and very prolific. 
One of the new and noteworthy 
SANTA ROSA Oriental plums surpassing Abun- 
dance and Burbank in many treé and fruit characteris- 
tics. Fruits are large and attractive. Tree is a prolific 
bearer. 1 year trees only. 
NEVER SAW BETTER TREES 
: Livingston, Va., Feb. 8, 1948 
Gentlemen: 
Enclosed find check to pay for trees shipped Dec. 
1942. I never saw better peach trees. 
Yours truly, 
Lea Brothers 
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