THE PLUM. 
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Fruit large, egg-shaped, with a neck, deep-purple, shaded 
with violet, suture deep, half-round. Flesh rather coarse, melt- 
ing, pleasant. Freestone. Eipens end of August. (Al. Pom.) 
Quackenboss. 
Introduced by Mr. Quackenboss, of Greenbush, N. Y. A 
very rapid upright grower, and productive. 
Fruit large, oblong-oval. Skin deep purple, covered with a 
whitish bloom. Suture scarcely apparent. Stalk short, crook- 
ed, thin, and set in a slight depressed cavity. Flesh greenish- 
yellow, sprightly, juicy, a little coarse-grained, sweet and excel- 
lent. Adheres slightly to the stone. A valuable late market 
plum, October. (N. Y. Hort. Rev.) 
Quetsche de Dorelle. 
Fruit medium, oval. Suture small. Skin reddish-purple 
with a thin bloom, and thickly covered with grey dots. Flesh 
greenish, sweet, and pleasant. Adheres to the stone. Ripeiu 
first of September. 
Quetsche, or German Prune. Thomp. 
Common Quetsche. 
True Large German Prune. 
Turkish Quetsche. 
Leipzic. 
Sweet Prune. 
Damask. 
Zwetsche. 
Quetsche Grosse. 
Prune d’Allemagne. 
Quetsche d’Allemagne Grosse. 
Damas Gros. 
Covetche. 
Imperatrice Yiolette. 
Imperatrice Yiolette Grosse. incorrectly , of some. 
Damas Yiolet Gros. 
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ac. to 
Thomp. 
So many plums are cultivated under the name of German 
Prune, that it is difficult to fix this fickle title, a circumstance 
owing to the fact that the prune frequently comes the same, or 
nearly the same, from seed, and in prune-growing districts this 
is a popular way of increasing them, while it, of course, gives 
rise to many shades of character. It is a valuable class of 
plums, of fair quality for the table, but most esteemed for dry- 
ing and preserving — abundant bearers, and hanging long on the 
tree. The common German Prune is described as follows : 
Branches smooth. Fruit long-oval, near two inches long, 
peculiarly swollen on one side, and drawn out towards the stalk. 
Suture distinctly marked. Skin purple, with a thick blue 
bloom. Stalk three-fourths of an inch long, slender, slightly 
inserted. Flesh firm, green, sweet and pleasant ; separates from 
the stone, which is fiat, very long, and a little curved. Ripens 
about the 10th of September. 
This prune is, perhaps, the most universal and most valuable 
fruit tree in Germany, Hungary, Saxony, and all central Europe. 
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