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• Prune
  ...literature, however, it may be used rather indefinitely for many kinds of plums, particularly those that are firm-fleshed; "dried prunes" is then used for ...as had a very checkered career. The early pomologist took much interest in plums and prunes, because of the magnificence of the products secured, and the ea
  25 KB (4,376 words) - 01:08, 22 September 2009
• Prunus spinosa
  ...e is a sweet-fruited form. It has been supposed by some that the domestica plums may have come from this species, but this is very doubtful, at least within
  4 KB (624 words) - 12:27, 21 September 2009
• Prunus alleghaniensis
  ...rnamental subject it has merit, for it bears profusely of fls. and fr. The plums, or
  4 KB (656 words) - 12:42, 21 September 2009
• Ground tissue
  8 KB (1,180 words) - 05:21, 6 April 2007
• Prunus angustifolia
  ...type of P. angustifolia are found, and giving rise to many early- fruited plums, such as Yellow Transparent, Emerson, Coletta, Clark, African. Supposed to
  5 KB (782 words) - 12:38, 21 September 2009
• Prunus hortulana
  ...ate. The species was first distinguished in 1892 to designate varieties of plums intermediate between P. americana and P. angustifolia (the two species at t
  5 KB (808 words) - 12:36, 21 September 2009
• Pollen, Pollination
  ...ey finds the nuclei of the pollen of many self-sterile varieties of native plums to be degenerated and disorganized. Degeneration of the pollen cannot be th ...the culture of certain fruits. It is common in varieties of pears, apples, plums, and grapes; it is uncommon or unknown in cherries, peaches, raspberries, c
  28 KB (4,451 words) - 15:41, 16 September 2009
• Spondias
  ...roots are an adaptation to arid regions. The fruits are the size of large plums, with a pale yellow skin, soft, juicy pulp and a large, nearly smooth seed.
  8 KB (1,322 words) - 00:35, 18 July 2009
• Prunus
  ...interesting of all genera. It includes important orchard fruits,— peaches, plums, cherries, apricots, and almonds. It is also prolific of ornamental subject ...they are also employed, particularly in the South, for many fruit-bearing plums. The sweet cherry (P. avium) is a good stock for the various kinds of doubl
  35 KB (4,290 words) - 03:01, 14 January 2010
• Fruit growing
  ...es, raspberries, many gooseberries, strawberries (of Chilean origin), many plums, cranberries, blueberries, and a few apples. ...permanently divided between trees and hay, or trees and other crops. With plums and pears and some other orchard fruits, it is often allowable to use the i
  34 KB (5,495 words) - 19:39, 21 August 2009
• Apricot
  ...roperties of the soil. The trees are pruned in essentially the same way as plums. The fruit-buds are borne both on spurs (two are shown in Fig. 281) and als ...of control of this insect is by jarring the trees, in the same way as with plums and peaches, but the work must be even more thoroughly done than with those
  24 KB (4,125 words) - 02:43, 15 August 2021
• Disease
  ...distortions. There are such symptoms in crown-gall of trees, black-knot of plums and cherries and leaf-curl of the peach (Fig. 1279). Another type are canke ...the causal agents in such well-known diseases as apple- scab, brown-rot of plums and peaches (Fig. 1285), black-rot of grapes, (Fig. 1286) bitter-rot of app
  48 KB (7,998 words) - 21:27, 1 April 2009
• Grafting
  ...n the nursery, or has some other practical advantage. Thus, most domestica plums (Prunus domestica) in the North are worked on the myrobalan (P. cerasifera) Budding is much employed in nurseries. Peaches, cherries, plums, and most stone fruits, are habitually budded rather than scion-grafted. In
  50 KB (9,181 words) - 01:31, 13 July 2010
• List of fruits
  * [[Plum]], of which there are several domestic and wild species; dried plums are called '''[[prunes]]'''
  20 KB (2,554 words) - 23:49, 9 March 2010
• Photography
  ...as all operators who have photographed yellow roses, yellow apples, yellow plums, and the like, will have observed. Fortunately, there are available photogr
  27 KB (4,470 words) - 04:17, 10 July 2009
• Inspection of Horticultural Merchandise
  ...fruits: oranges, sweet limes, mangoes, Achras sapota, peaches, guavas, and plums. It was amended February 8, 1913, to include, in addition to the above frui
  25 KB (3,791 words) - 07:40, 9 March 2010
• Cherry
  ...d. All of the pests named, both fungi and insects, are more destructive to plums and peaches, and the reader is referred to these fruits for treatment which
  25 KB (4,117 words) - 01:56, 5 March 2015
• Angiosperm
  ...ily (including [[apple]]s, [[pear]]s, [[cherry|cherries]], [[apricots]], [[plums]], etc).
  28 KB (4,152 words) - 02:13, 10 February 2010
• Horticulture
  ...limes, pineapples, bananas, olives, figs, pomegranates, peaches, quinces, plums, apples, pears and grapes. They shipped to Monterey and the northern missio ...iety of new fruits. There are now under cultivation 11 American species of plums, of which there are 433 pure-bred and 155 hybrid varieties; 15 species of A
  139 KB (22,466 words) - 22:18, 11 January 2010
• Pruning
  ...inside pruning is necessary. Whenever there is danger of fruit-rot, as in plums and early peaches, it is a question whether the thick form of top is the mo
  34 KB (5,883 words) - 10:10, 20 September 2009

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