This variety is possibly the same as Précoce de Tours but we are unable to identify it positively with this or any other known variety. The “Violette” mentioned in the fourth reference above may not be identical with the Violet of the older writers but it seems to be similar. According to Parkinson the Violet is “a small and long blackish blew plum, ripe about Bartholomew tide, a very good dry eating plum.”
Victor Sand Cherry. (Prunus besseyi × Munsoniana) × Domestica. 1. Am. Br. Assoc. Rpt. 2:184. 1906.
Theodore Williams of Benson, Nebraska pollinated Prunus besseyi with Wild Goose and the resulting seedling was fertilized with pollen from Quackenboss. This final cross resulted in the variety under discussion. Fruit nearly two inches in diameter; apparently of value.
Violet Imperial. Domestica. 1. Horticulturist 4:196. 1849.
Die Violette Kaiserpflaume 1. Impériale Violette 1.
Violet Imperial is usually considered the same as Red Magnum Bonum but Liegel describes it as distinct in that its leaves are shorter, its fruit smaller, darker and ripening period three or four weeks later.
Violet Royal. Domestica. Mentioned in Miller Gard. Kal. 155. 1734.
Violette Americaine. Species? 1. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 452. 1889.
Mathieu found reference in Revue Horticole 351. 1869.
Virgata. Species? 1. Ga. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 51. 1889.