Fruit early, ripening period short; one and five-eighths inches in diameter, roundish-cordate; cavity deep, wide, usually with concentric, russet lines; color greenish-yellow changing to deep yellow as the fruit reaches full maturity, with thin bloom; flesh golden-yellow, fibrous, firm, sweetish except near the center; fair to good; stone clinging, five-eighths inch by one-half inch in size, oval, turgid, with pitted surfaces; ventral suture broad, slightly ribbed; dorsal suture acute. GERMAN PRUNE [Illustration: GERMAN PRUNE] _Prunus domestica_ =1.= Knoop _Fructologie_ =2=:53, 61. 1771. 2. Coxe _Cult. Fr. Trees_ 235, fig. 7. 1817. =3.= _Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat._ 152. 1831. =4.= Prince _Pom. Man._ =2=:77, 78. 1832. =5.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 310. 1845. =6.= Floy-Lindley _Guide Orch. Gard._ 286, 383. 1846. =7.= Poiteau _Pom. Franc._ =1=:1846. =8.= Thomas _Am. Fruit Cult._ 335. 1849. =9.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 214. 1856. =10.= Hooper _W. Fr. Book_ 245. 1857. =11.= Thompson _Gard. Ass’t_ 519. 1859. =12.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 378. 1866. =13.= _Pom. France_ =7=: No. 17. 1871. =14.= Mas _Pom. Gen._ =2=:171. 1873. =15.= Lange _Allgem. Garten._ =2=:418. 1879. =16.= Lauche _Deut. Pom._ =1=:1882. =17.= Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 434. 1889. =18.= Wickson _Cal. Fruits_ 355. 1891. =19.= _Guide Prat._ 155, 362. 1895. =20.= _Cornell Sta. Bul._ =131=:185, fig. 43. 1897. =21.= _Oregon Sta. Bul._ =45=:29 fig. 1897. =22.= Waugh _Plum Cult._ 102. 1901. =23.= _Ohio Sta. Bul._ =162=: 254, 255. 1905.