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  • From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Hardy Prunus, was Re: Staking of immature fruit trees
  • Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:32:35 -0600

Would Mirabelle be suitable for making plum wine? I've never tasted
one. What kind of character does the fruit have?

~mIEKAL

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Claude Jolicoeur <cjoli@gmc.ulaval.ca> wrote:
> Doug,
> Yes my Mirabelle is of quite good quality, and I would say more than just
> "suitable" for fresh eating when well ripe. The racoons are also very found
> of it so I usually have to harvest a bit before full maturity. It ripens
> about a week later than Mont-Royal.
>
> Next year I intend to take close-up pictures of the flowers and count the
> stamens - I read in Plums of NY that P.insititia have a different number of
> stamens than P.communis, so hopefully this test should confirm if it is
> really a Mirabelle. If you want, I could sent you a picture off list - I
> have a nice one with Mirabelle and Blue Damas side by side to compare sizes.
>
> Claude
>
>
> At 01:55 2009-11-17, you wrote:
>>Claude, is your Mirabelle of decent quality, and suitable for fresh eating?
>>
>>I would be surprised if some of the settlers of New France had not
>>planted seeds of Mirabelles from France. I would also have expected them
>>to try grafted trees from France at some point.
>>
>>Stanley is a shade hardier than Mount Royal (though liable to black
>>knot, and from my limited observation not very good quality on peach
>>soils at least for fresh eating) and if I remember rightly it came from
>>a cross between Prune D'Agen and Grand Duke; (I forget the direction)
>>i.e. old European plums.
>>
>>But also, around 1985 I observed in an old plum orchard in the Niagara
>>Peninsula, several trees with small, round, rather bland fruits of
>>various colours including yellow, which I deduced were sprouts from
>>rootstocks of perhaps St. Julien, where the tops of commercial cultivars
>>had died. And (for the benefit of the newbies), damsons, Mirabelles, and
>>the St. Julien rootstocks are subgroups of Prunus insititia of Europe.
>>
>>Doug Woodard




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