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  • "The plumcot cross-existed, but he saw potential in the plum's sweetness and the apricot's aromatics and crossed it back with the parent tree many times to bring out those characteristics – sweet but no bitter skin."

    Floyd Zaiger: 'Pluot' Creator Continues Perfecting Fruit With Meticulous, Low-Tech Breeding Methods AP 2010

  • "The plumcot cross-existed, but he saw potential in the plum's sweetness and the apricot's aromatics and crossed it back with the parent tree many times to bring out those characteristics – sweet but no bitter skin."

    Floyd Zaiger: 'Pluot' Creator Continues Perfecting Fruit With Meticulous, Low-Tech Breeding Methods AP 2010

  • "The plumcot cross-existed, but he saw potential in the plum's sweetness and the apricot's aromatics and crossed it back with the parent tree many times to bring out those characteristics – sweet but no bitter skin."

    Floyd Zaiger: 'Pluot' Creator Continues Perfecting Fruit With Meticulous, Low-Tech Breeding Methods AP 2010

  • His beard was trimmed after the Byzantine fashion, his various flashes of scar tissue had taken on a plum's brilliance, his sleet blue eyes looked out upon the world with a cub's curiosity and a papa bear's cunning.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • It's now two years since anyone has posted here, but when my Victoria plum's branches nearly broke from too many plums, I thinned them and have hard green plums so came hunting on the internet for recipes.

    Tkemali: A Sour Plum Sauce Lindy 2006

  • It was all the plum's fault, for if it had n't fallen at that minute, I never should have had the thought which popped into my mischievous mind.

    An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

  • As she recovered composure, however, she grew more beautiful in his sight, her dark, peerless charms filling the room, her kindling eyes conveying love, her skin like the wild plum's, and her raven brows and crown of luxuriant hair rising upon a queenly presence worthy of an empress's throne.

    The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877

  • It was all the plum's fault, for if it had n't fallen at that minute, I never should have had the thought which popped into my mischievous mind.

    An Old-Fashioned Girl Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1870

  • It was all the plum's fault, for if it had n't fallen at that minute, I never should have had the thought which popped into my mischievous mind.

    An Old-Fashioned Girl Louisa May Alcott 1860

  • March brought the plum's beautiful links of london sale tiny white flowers, and Justin was overjoyed.

    VInvesting.com 2010

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