Descriptions of Select Varieties of Plums. 151 



of the largest specimens from vigorous trees have measured 

 six and a half or seven inches in circumference. 



Fruity large, about two and a quarter inches long, and two 

 and an eighth of an inch in diameter, roundish oval, largest 

 in the middle, and tapering to each end, with a distinct but 

 shallow suture extending half round : Skin, fair, smooth, dull 

 yellow, inclining to orange in some specimens, dotted and mar- 

 bled with crimson on the sunny side, and covered with a thin 

 lilac bloom : Stem, medium length, about three quarters of an 

 inch, rather stout, and inserted in a shallow cavity : Flesh, 

 yellow, rather firm and melting, separating freely from the 

 stone: Jtiice, abundant, rich, sugary, sprightly, and luscious: 

 Stone, medium size, oval, acute at each end, deeply furrowed, 

 and nearly even at the edges. Ripe the last of August and 

 beginning of September. 



Wood, stout, short-jointed, and slightly downy. 



6. Saint Martin Rouge. Bon Jardinier. 



Coe's Fine Late Red. Hort. Soc. Cat. 3d Ed. 



Saint Martin, of some French collections. 



Red Saint Martin. Pom. Manual. 



Pninier de St. Martin. N. Duhamel. 



Coe's Late Red. Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. 



This fine plum {fig- 15,) has been erroneously named, in 

 England, Coe's Fine Late Red, 

 from the fact that it was brought 

 to notice by Mr. Coe, as a new 

 seedling; but it subsequently 

 proved to be the old Saint Mar- 

 tin Rouge, of French collec- 

 tions: instead, however, of drop- 

 ping the new name, it has been 

 improperly retained, and is de- 

 scribed under this cognomen in 

 the third edition of the Cata- 

 logue of the London Horticul- 

 tural Society. Mr. Prince and 

 Mr. Kenrick have both retained 



♦Vi« t:"......^„u TIT Fig.lb. Saint Martin Rouffe. 



the 1- rench name, and, believ- 



ing this to be its proper one, we have also adopted it, not 



