Fruit mid-season, ripening period very long; about one and five-eighths inches in diameter, round, dark reddish-purple, covered with medium thick bloom; dots numerous, conspicuous; stem thick, surrounded by a fleshy ring at the cavity; skin sour; flesh golden-yellow, dry, firm but tender, sweet, mild, pleasant in flavor; of good quality; stone nearly free, seven-eighths inch by three-quarters inch in size, oval, turgid, with roughened surfaces; ventral suture broad, with short but distinct wing; dorsal suture wide, deep. ENGLEBERT [Illustration: ENGLEBERT] _Prunus domestica_ =1.= _Horticulturist_ =10=:71. 1855. =2.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 392. 1857. 3. _Cultivator_ =6=:312 fig. 1858. =4.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 376. 1866. =5.= Thomas _Am. Fruit Cult._ 344. 1867. =6.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 24. 1871. =7.= Mas _Le Verger_ =6=:61. 1866-73. =8.= Barry _Fr. Garden_ 415. 1883. =9.= _Cat. Cong. Pom. France_ 357. 1887. =10.= Wickson _Cal. Fruits_ 354. 1891. =11.= _Guide Prat._ 154, 361. 1895. =12.= _Cornell Sta. Bul._ =131=:190. 1897. =13.= _N. Mex. Sta. Bul._ =27=:125. 1898. =14.= _Mich. Sta. Bul._ =169=:242, 244. 1899. =15.= Waugh _Plum Cult._ 101, 103 fig. 1901. =16.= _Va. Sta. Bul._ =134=:42. 1902. _Englebert_ 9. Prince Englebert 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12. Prince Engelbert 10, 13. _Prince Englebert_ 15, 16. _Prinz Engelbert_ 11. In common parlance Englebert is a prune, its origin, shape, color and firm golden-yellow flesh all marking it as such, but in prune-making regions it is usually marketed in the green state, if grown at all, and is little used in curing. It cannot be said to be much more popular as a plum than it is as a prune, chiefly because it is not of high quality, but also because it is none too attractive in color, size or shape, cutting a rather poor figure in comparison with a great number of other Domestica plums. The variety fails in tree as well as in fruit. The trees are variable in size, suffer from cold in exposed situations and while rather productive bear their crops in clusters hard to pick and well placed to insure infection from brown-rot when that disease is epidemic. For some reason the fruit of this variety shrivels at this Station not only after being picked, but while still on the tree. In New York, Englebert has been thoroughly tested, has been found wanting and is not now recommended. This variety was obtained from a seed of the “Date Prune,” by M. Scheidweiler, Professor of Botany at Ghent, Belgium.[211] The date of origin has not been given, but it was probably produced about the middle of the last century since it was described as a new fruit in the _Horticulturist_ for 1855. Englebert was added to the American Pomological Society catalog fruit list in 1871 under the name Prince Englebert, but in 1897, according to the rules of the Society, the name was simplified to Englebert.