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lyj OUNT HOPE NURSERIES • • • PLUMS. 
Damson. Fruit small, oval ; skin purple, covered with blue bloom ; flesh melt- 
ing and juicy, rather tart ; separates partly from the stone. September. 
(jerman Prune. A large, long, oval variety, much esteemed for drying ; color 
dark purple ; of very agreeable flavor. September. , 
Hale. New. A very handsome, large, round-cordate Plum, usually lop-sided ; 
orange, thinly overlaid with mottled red, so as to have a yellowish red appearance, 
or in well-colored specimens, deep cherry red with yellow specks ; flesh yellow, soft 
and juicy (yet a good keeper), with a very delicious, slightly acid peach flavor; skin 
somewhat sour ; cling ; very late. 
Lombard. Perhaps the best of the European varieties now in cultivation. Tree 
vigorous, hardy and productive ; fruit of medium size, roundish-oval, slightly flat- 
tened at the ends ; skin delicate violet-red, paler in shade ; flesh deep yellow, juiey 
and pleasant. August. 
IVliner. One of the improved native varieties. Fruit medium .size, oblong, skin 
dark purple ; flesh red, soft, juicy, with vinous flavor ; excellent for canning and 
cooking, and one of the best for market ; tree hardy, vigorous and productive. 
Red June. A very handsome Plum about a week earlier than Abundance. By 
all odds the best Japanese Plum ripeiiing before Abundance. Medium to nearly 
large size, deep vermilion -red, with handsome bloom and very showy ; flesh light 
lemon-yellow or whitish, firm and moderately juicy, very slightly subacid to sweet- 
ish, of good, pleasant quality ; pit sm.all ; tree upright, spreading, vigorous and 
hardy, and as productive as Burbank. 
Satsuma. Fruit medium to large; broadly conical, with a blunt, short point; 
suture very deep ; skin very dark and dull red all over, with greenish dots and an 
under-color of brown-red; firm, very juicy, quality good; cling; flesh so firm and 
solid as to enable it to be kept long in fine condition after being picked. We are 
each year more and more impressed with its great value as a market Plum. It is 
excellent for preserving, and a splendid keeper for the retail trade. It succeeds in 
many sections, and, where it does succeed, it is one of the most desirable. 
Shipper’s Pride. This Plum originated in northwestern New York, near the 
shore of Lake Ontario, and has never been known to freeze back a particle in the 
severest winters. Size large ; color dark purple ; flesh firm and excellent. Sep. i. 
Weaver. Fruit large ; purple, with blue bloom of good quality ; a constant and 
regular bearer. Tree hardy and thrifty. 
Wickson. New. A remarkably handsome and very large deep marood-red 
Plum of the Kelsey type. Long-cordate, or oblong-pointed ; flesh firm, deep ambsr- 
yellow, clinging to the small pit. There is apt to be a hollow space about the pit, as 
in Kelsey. Of first quality ; an excellent keeper. Cross of Burbank with Kelsey, 
Burbank furnishing the seed. 
Wild Qoose. The most popular Plum with some fruit growers. Tree a vigor- 
ous, upright grower ; fruit 
medium to large, rich, golden 
yellow, richly shaded with 
red ; flesh yellow, juicy ; 
flavor rich and good. 
Willard. One of the 
imported Japanese varieties, 
ripening a month before 
Abundance. When ripe is 
dark red, bordering on pur- 
ple ; a long keeper, not in- 
clined to decay ; carries to 
market well. Tree a vigor- 
ous grower ; very hardy and 
productive. Quality not as 
good as most of the Japan 
varieties. Largely planted 
on account of its extreme 
earliness. July. 
But lie -wlio Ooes after Xliein Oets Xliem Quleker. 
