KAIiLY I'LIMS. 



"There is a French Plum of largo size and very beautiful appearance, deacribed by 

 NoisETTK, PoiTKAU, and other Frencli potnologists, as the Prune J'ic/ie^ or Teach I'linn. It 

 is nK)st probably very little known out of France, since it is not recognized or described 

 as a distinct variety, by any English or American jjonioldgist down to the present time. 



"Ti'.OMi'soK, in the last edition of the London llnrticultural Society's Catalogue, as well 

 as in tiie I'omological Magazine, gives the Prune i'<V/«7a.s synonymous with the Nectarine. 

 l.iNDi.EY follows the latter work in his 6^n"</<; to the Orchard. In our work on Fruits, 

 never having been able to find the true Peach Plum, we also placed it lus a synonym of tho 

 Nectarine. But, at the sanwj time, we added the following paragrajih : 



" 'Mr. RiVKits has lately sent to this country, trees of the Piach IMam, which, ho says, 

 is the Prune Pechc of Brittany, superior to and quite distinct from tho Nectarine.'' 



"Singularly enough accident made us accpiainted with tho fact that, in the city of Sche- 

 nectady in this State, the genuine Peach Plum has been considerably cultivated for more 

 than twenty years, in the greatest perfection. Mr. Ciiahles II. Tomuxson of that place, 

 desirous of clearing up some doubts in relation to the Plum known as Dunne's I'urple, 

 brought us at tho close of July, some very remarkable looking Plums, strikingly dillcrent 

 from any other variety. Having excellent colored drawings and descriptions of tho 

 Prune PecJie, both in the Jardin Fruitier of Noisette, and the Pomologie Franfaise of 

 PoiTEAU, we recognized the specimens immediately as tho genuine old Peach Plum of 

 France, which is scarcely at all known to cultivators, from its having been confounded with 

 the Nectarine Plum. 



"This true Peach Plum is a superb fruit. It could never have been received correctly 

 in the garden of the London Horticultural Society, for a single glance at the external 

 ajipearance of the fruit is sutlicient to distinguish it from all other Plums. Its color, as is 

 correctlv shown in the colored plates of the two French authors just mentioned, is a dark 

 salmon-red, while that of the Nectarine Plum, as every one knows, is a (Yi^tiucUj purpUi^h- 

 red. Again, the Peach Plum, ripens here ten days before the Washington, making it 

 the earliest of Plums. (Noisette says, in France it rijiens from the 10th to tliC 2(ith 

 of July.) The Nectarine Plum does not ripen here till the middle or last of August — a 

 week or ten days after tho Washington, and three yeeks later than tho Peach Plum. 



" Considering its large size, its early maturity, and agreeable flavor, we think the Peach 

 Plum will be a valuable acquisition to our fruits. Mr. Tomi.ixson showed us some pjjeci- 

 mens when we were at Schenectady on the first of August, one of which measured six 

 inches and a half in circumference. We have prepared an outhno of this variety, and 

 made the following description with the fruit 

 before us. 



"Peach Plum. Prune Peche, Noisette, 

 Poiteau. — The tree is a pretty strong grower, 

 Avith stout smooth shoots. Fruit very large, 

 shaped more like a Peach than a Plum, being 

 usually wider than its depth ; regularly 

 formed, roundish, much flattened at both 

 ends; suture shallow, but strt)ngly marked ; 

 apex much depressed, with a jiunciured mark 

 at the point. Skin, light brownish-red, 

 nearly a salmon color in the lightest portions, 

 sprinkled with obscure dark specks, and cov- 

 ered with a delicate pale bloom. Stalk very 

 short, rather stout, set in a shallow narrow 

 Flesh pale yellow, a little coarse- 



ained, but juicy and of pleasant sprightly 



