A superior variety of its class raised by William Prince; used mostly for preserves, compotes, and pickles. Flowers small; fruit large, oval; skin very downy, dark purplish; flesh crimson; flavor indifferent.
Prince Climax. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 641. 1857.
Said to have originated on the farm of George Mitchell, Flushing, New York. Tree very productive; fruit large, oval; skin yellow, mottled with a crimson cheek; flesh yellow, very rich, aromatic, with a pineapple flavor; stone adherent; ripens from the middle to the end of September.
Prince Eugène. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 228. 1866.
Eugen von Savoyen. 2. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 3:205. 1858.
Prinz Eugen. 3. Thomas Guide Prat. 50, 223. 1876.
Similar to Early Purple, of which it is a seedling, but smaller and more deeply sutured. Tree vigorous and very productive; ripens the middle of August.
Prince John. 1. Elliott Fr. Book 302. 1859. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 6:246, 247 fig. 1879.
This variety is of American origin and was sent to France in 1860 by P. J. Berckmans, Augusta, Georgia. Fruit large, roundish or roundish-oval; skin orange-yellow, with a deep red blush; flesh deep yellow, firm, very juicy, with a delicious flavor; stone free; ripens the middle of September in France.
Prince Late Yellow Freestone. 1. Bridgeman Gard. Ass't. Pt. 3:107, 108. 1857.
A beautiful, greenish-yellow fruit, tinged with red, having a firm, rich flesh.
Prince of Wales. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 229. 1866. 2. Am. Hort. Ann. 79, 80. 1870. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 30. 1877.
Prinz von Wales. 4. Gaucher Pom. Prak. Obst. No. 90, Tab. 17. 1894.