Your e-mail Plum Tree Plums are popular for cooking, jam making and bottling or canning, but the sweeter varieties are among our most delicious dessert fruits.
Damsons ripen a little later than most plums.
The fruits are small, oval and richly flavored, but not really sweet enough for the general taste for eating raw. They are, however, excellent for cooking, preserves and bottling. Bullaces are small round fruits, which ripen even later and are useful on that account to lengthen the season. Bullaces can be eaten raw but are excellent for cooking. Gages are simply a class of plum with a characteristic, and particularly delicious, flavor.