The name “Turkish Prune,” although sometimes applied to the Italian Prune does not seem to be connected with any particular variety. It may be a synonym of the “Jerusalem Prune” or it may have developed, as a corruption of the still older “Turkey” plum mentioned by Parkinson and other writers in the Seventeenth Century.
Twice Bearing. Domestica. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:113. 1768. 2. Prince Pom. Man. 2:103. 1832. 3. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 144. 1831. 4. Poiteau Pom. Franc. 1:1846. 5. Mas Le Verger 6:79. 1866-73. 6. Nicholson Dict. Gard. 3:235. 7. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 455. 1889.
Bifere 2, 7. Bifere 5. Bon deux fois l’an? 2. Bonne deux fois l’an 3. De Deux Saison 5. Deux fois l’an 2. P. biferum 6. Prune bifere 2. Prune de Deux Saisons 2, 7. Prune qui fructifie deux fois l’an 5, 7. Prunier bifere 4. Prunier Fleurissant et Poussant Deux Fois 5, 7. Prunier qui fructifie deux fois par an 1, 2. Prunus bifera 1. Zweimal Blühende und Zweimal Tragende Bunte Pflaume 5, 7. Zweimal Tragende 7.
A Domestica of ancient origin grown more as a curiosity and an ornamental than for utility. Fruit long, almost olive-form; suture faint; skin reddish-yellow, heavily tinged with brown; bloom heavy; flesh coarse, yellow, green beneath the suture, juice insipid; stone almost smooth, acutely pointed, clinging. The first crop is borne the beginning of August; the second very late; both worthless.
Twins. Domestica. 1. Montreal Hort. Soc. Rpt. 55. 1878.
Corse’s Twins 1.
A curious double plum which originated with Henry Corse, Montreal, Canada; inferior.
Tzaueron. Insititia? 1. Rev. Hort. 357. 1891.
Le Prunier Tzaneron 1. Tzaneron 1.