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Re: [nafex] Re: Purple leaves, tasty fruit



One flaw of the true Hollywood plum is that the fruit has a very short life.
 I have seen fruit that was just ripe in the morning hanging like a sack of
mush by evening.
    -Lon Rombough
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>From: "Mark Lee" <piper3@uswest.net>
>To: nafex@egroups.com
>Subject: [nafex] Re: Purple leaves, tasty fruit
>Date: Thu, Jan 18, 2001, 8:24 AM
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>I found a copy of Purple Leaved Plums by Arthur Lee Jacobson, Timber 
>Press 1992.  Here is a list of purple leaved edibles that interests 
>me (all survive in Seattle where I live):
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>Spencer Hollywood - the author's favorite purple leaved plum. dwarf 
>with good fruit. freestone and abundant. delicious.
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>Purple Pigmy - cherry sized fruit
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>Allred - grown for fruit, red inside and out
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>Trailblazer - deep red skin, amber flesh
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>Hollywood - good quality fruit, red inside and out
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>I have located sources for Allred (www.eat-it.com) and Hollywood 
>(www.hartmannursery.com).  I am especially interested in finding the 
>Spencer Hollywood Purple Leaved Plum.  Anyone seen this for sale?
>
>-Mark
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