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• Packages
  ==Plums== Plums are shipped in a great variety of packages. Fancy grades are wrapped in pap
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• Melicoccus bijugatus
  ...is cult. in S. Fla. and S. Calif. Its frs. are about the size and shape of plums, green or yellow, and have a pleasant grape-like flavor. The large seeds ar
  2 KB (326 words) - 18:04, 5 January 2010
• Cerasus
  ...pt distinct in trade lists, representing the cherries as distinct from the plums. Botanically, the group is distinguished from Prunus proper (the plum group
  4 KB (542 words) - 09:56, 28 June 2009
• Symbiosis
  ...s); or galls (hypertrophies) produced on the host, as in the black-knot of plums; and in higher plants, which live at the expense of others, as the mistleto
  3 KB (443 words) - 20:34, 6 August 2009
• Plum
  |image_caption=Plums Plums come in a wide variety of colours and sizes. Some are much firmer-fleshed t
  44 KB (7,382 words) - 01:52, 5 March 2015
• Prunus pumila var. besseyi
  ...ed by Hansen. The species ia useful as a stock for certain other cherries, plums, and even peaches for cold countries where the trees must be protected.
  4 KB (570 words) - 19:10, 22 September 2009
• Prunus pumila
  ...fungus Monilia). There are reputed crosses between this species and native plums.
  4 KB (575 words) - 12:54, 21 September 2009
• Dwarfing
  ...ast three centuries, various stocks have been used to dwarf apples, pears, plums, cherries and quinces. In fact, dwarf fruit trees were quite as common, or ...te readily with several varieties each of either the Domestica or Triflora plums, and to make very good dwarfing stocks for them.
  16 KB (2,838 words) - 21:36, 15 September 2009
• 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

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