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THE MOROCCO PLUM.
Early Black [Damask, commonly called the Morocco Plum.
Langley, t. 20. f . 3. Forsyth, p . 15.
Morocco. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 175.
Black Morocco A
Black Damask > o f various Collections.
Early Damask J
This is one of the very best of our early Plums,
and has long been an inhabitant of our Gardens. In
the time of Langley it was evidently common and
well known. It is not, however, so much cultivated
now as formerly, for which reason a figure
of it is here given, in order that it may not be entirely
lost sight of.
It is very hardy, bears well as a standard, and
ripens fully a month before the Orleans, coming-
in at the beginning of August. The juice is unusually
rich.
W ood downy.
L eaves middle-sized, bluntly serrated, rather
light green, shining on the upper surface. S talks
from half an inch to an inch long, with globose
glands.
F lowers large.
F ruit middle-sized, roundish, its suture moderately
depressed along one sid e ; the Apex a little
fia tten ed ; the S talk thick, scarcely half an inch
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