Myrobalan Seedlings

Categories: Fruit Growing

I am sending two small plums which I am told are Myrobalan plum. I

desire to grow seedlings on which later to bud and graft French prunes.

If these are Myrobalan plums, will trees from them be as good as trees

from pits that were imported?



The fruits are Myrobalan plums, and their seedlings would be suitable

for the French prune, providing the trees which bear them are strong,

thrifty growing trees. There is great variation in the colors of the

Myrobalan seedlings, from light yellow to dark red, and it is the

satisfactory growth of the tree rather than the character of the fruit

which one has to bear in mind when growing seedlings from selected trees

instead of depending so largely on imported seedlings.