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Title: The gardener's assistant; a practical and scientific exposition of the art of gardening in all its branches
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Thompson, Robert, 1798-1869 Watson, William, 1858-1925
Subjects: Gardening Horticulture
Publisher: London : The Gresham Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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good friend, iBentham & Hookers British Flora. PLUMS AND DAMSONS. 151 Master John Tradescante, who hath wonder-fully laboured to obtain all the rarest fruitshe can hear of in any place of Christendome,Turky, yea of the whole world . John Gerarde wrote three centuries ago: To write of Plums particularly would requirea peculiar volume. . . . Every clymate hathhis owne fruite, far different from that of othercountries; my selfe have threescore sorts inmy garden, and all strange and rare; there bein other places many more common, and yet yearely commeth to our hands others not beforeknowne. As in the case of Apples and Pears, Plumsraised from seeds generally show considerablevariety, and as they have been favourite fruitsin European gardens for many centuries, theircharacters have been greatly modified by culti-vation and selection. Some varieties are saidto come tolerably true from seeds, especiallythe Green Gage, Prune, Myrobalan, and Damson. In the United States of America several
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Fig. 947.—Prunus communis. native species of Prunus have been brought intogardens, and by selection and crossing haveyielded improved useful fruits (fig. 948). Inthis way, about a hundred choice forms of thenative Plum of the North-west (Prunus Ameri-cana) have been gathered and sorted and givennames; and they are so much more hardy andreliable than the European type of Plum, thatthey will probably form the chief foundationfrom which the future orchard Plums of thenorthern prairie states will spring. They arealready grown to an important commercialextent (Bailey). Other American species ofPrunus from which useful garden Plums havebeen evolved are P. angustifolia (ChickasawPlums) and P. hortulana (Wild Goose, Miner,Wayland, &c, Plums). A form of the last-namedhas been successfully hybridized with a Peach. The European Plums are largely cultivatedin some parts of the United States, and someof our most valuable varieties were raised there. Among them the Jefferson holds first rank;

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