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highest Gage flavor. Good for dessert, excellent for jam and for canning and 
usually a reliable cropper. 
Golden Transparent Gage—A choice, late dessert plum. Fruit is clear golden- 
yellow with a number of small red dots. Flesh firm, very sweet with rich 
Gage flavor. 
Green Gage—Considered by Europeans to be the ideal dessert plum. Fruit 
small, yellowish green of rich flavor but crops are light and uncertain. 
Hall—is a large, attractive, blue plum. The fruits are so attractive and well 
flavored that they will sell in any market. In color it resembles the Grand 
Duke. Tree is productive and medium in size. 
Imperial Epineuse—is an old French prune. Fruit is reddish purple, tender, 
sweet, juicy, and highly flavored. Requires cross-pollination. 
Pacific—is a very large, bluish-colored, freestone plum of good quality. Some 
years its crop is light and during wet seasons it may crack. Size and ap- 
pearance should command a ready sale. 
Pearl—is a medium-sized yellow plum originated by Luther Burbank. Its quality 
is exceptionally sweet and rich. Recommended for the home garden. Tree is 
only moderately productive. 
Sannois—is a very late reddish purple French plum of medium size. It is one 
of the sweetest and most delectable varieties of all the plum family. Recom- 
mended for the home garden. 
Stanley—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. The 
fruit is large in size, dark blue with thick bloom; flesh greenish yellow, juicy, 
fine-grained, tender, firm, sweet, pleasant; quality good; stone free; mid- 
season. This variety is becoming a valuable commercial variety. 
Utility Plum—originated by Thomas Laxton, England, by crossing Jefferson 
with Peach and introduced about 1915. Fruit large, almost oval, deep cyc- 
lamen purple with bloom; flesh tender, juicy, sweet and fair flavor for 
dessert. Season mid-August. 
Yakima—a very large, prune-shaped, purplish red, freestone, good-quality plum. 
Tree is vigorous and upright. Recommended for local markets. 
Geneva #826—Obtained in 1937 from a cross between Albion and Italian Prune. 
A high quality, self-fruitful, freestone, prune-type plum that ripens at Geneva 
the last week of September. The fruit is slightly oval, with an attractive blue- 
black bloom on a dark red under-coat. The light greenish amber flesh is firm 
and crisp with a sweet and very good flavor. Preliminary observations indi- 
cate that this plum may prove to be a valuable late prune-type to follow 
Stanley. 
AMERICAN-JAPANESE HYBRIDS 
Native or American types are hardy but cannot compare in quality with other 
types. Hybrids between Japanese and American plums are superior to our native 
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