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even the best Damsons, of greatly improved form, size, color and quality, and 
the stone wholly eliminated. Like several others of these hybrid seedlings, 
this new and first really stoneless hybrid plum not only resembles but even 
surpasses its staminate parent, the French Prune, in size, and resembles it in 
general form, and especially in its enormous productiveness, but having a 
much heavier blue bloom, thus more resembling some of the German Hun- 
garian prunes. While not containing sugar enough to be classed among the 
drying prunes, for cooking it must supplant all the Damsons, as it is larger 
and more productive, if possible, than any of them which are noted for their 
productiveness. Experiments are to be continued in this very interesting line, 
and among the thousands of hybrid seedlings of the last generation a large 
number show that they have still further valuable distinctive qualities. It 
has been a tedious and highly expensive matter to breed out the stone from 
the plum, and at the same time increase its size, quality and productiveness, 
as only a small proportion of the seedlings are stoneless, and most of them 
Our Trees and Plants are 
tured and Absolutely True to 
we have established 
our well - earned reputation as the 
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