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[markl <markl@nytec.com>]

I attended a Havest Day two weeks ago at the WSU 
Fruit Research Station in Mt Vernon, WA.  I was 
pleased to find a few varieties of plums still in 
good condition.  One variety was a damson-type, which 
I think is related to the bullaces that Lon 
mentions.  The other was a european plum called 
Polly.  I picked a bunch of these plums and I just 
finished the last of them.  I ate them fresh.  I was 
really impressed by Polly.  That tree was very loaded 
with fruit in a year when I had only a handful on my 
own Italian prune.  Fresh plums and its almost 
November!  I plan on adding Polly plum to my 
collection next spring.  Here is a description from 
Cummins Nursery on-line catalog ..."POLLY  Good for 
fresh market, an ideal pollinizer for European 
plums.   Fruits are purple, long-oblate, large and 
freestone with a fresh mild taste.  The tree is 
upright-spreading, medium vigor."
-Mark Lee, Seattle z7
The first frost is probably tonight