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with a thick blue bloom. Flesh greenish-yellow, sweet and well-flavoured, 
sugary, rich, and delicious, slightly adhering to the stone. A valuable 
drying and preserving variety. 
The tree is quite an upright grower, and has a much broader leaf 
Fig. 130.— Fellenberg. Fig. 131.— Wangenheim. 
than the ' Prune d'Agen.' A peculiarity of this Prune is that it cannot be 
worked on any other than the Plum stock, except by double working. 
When budded on Peach or Almond it sooner or later parts from the stock. 
Fig. 132. — Hungaeian. Fig. 133. — Tragedy. 
The striking characteristics of this tree are its large, bright, shiny, lancet- 
shaped leaves, and its strong growth, tapering, violet-brown underneajh 
with silvery skin pieces. 
' Silver ' (fig. 127) originated in Oregon : it is said to be a seedling from 
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