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Definition of Common plum
1. Noun. Any of various widely distributed plums grown in the cooler temperate areas.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Plum
Literary usage of Common plum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"... mace, cinnamon, and nutmeg, half an ounce each. Butter the pan, and put it
into a quick oven. Three hours will bake it. Very good common Plum Cakes. ..."
2. The Book of the Garden by Charles McIntosh (1855)
"The stocks usually employed for this purpose are, the common plum, the muscle plum,
... The plum is wrought upon the Brussels stock and common plum stock, ..."
3. The Nursery-book: A Complete Guide to the Multiplication and Pollination of by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1891)
"In the north and east, the common plum (P. domestica) is commonly worked upon
... The Japanese plums are worked upon peach, common plum or upon natives, ..."
4. Gardening (1904)
"It is used principally as one of the components of incense, and the best quality
oi it comes from the common plum Blossoms. satisfied that 12000 cwts. ..."
5. The Flower Garden, Or, Breck's Book of Flowers: In which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1858)
"It may either be propagated by layers, or by budding and grafting on the common
plum stock. P. siberica scarcely grows so large as the candicans ;. thrives ..."
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