152 Descriptio7is of Select Varieties of Plums. 



wishing to give greater publicity to a palpable error of the 

 Society's Catalogue. 



The Saint Martin Rouge is a very superior late plum, much 

 resembling the Reine Claude both in shape, color, and size, 

 and, like that, a high-flavored and delicious fruit, coming in 

 about the middle of October, when, with the exception of the 

 Golden Drop and Frost Gage, there are no fine plums : it fre- 

 quently hangs upon the tree till injured by frosts. 



Fruity medium size, about one and three quarter inches long, 

 and one and five eighths in diameter, of roundish, regular 

 form, with a distinct but rather shallow suture on one 

 side, ending in a considerably depressed point at the apex : 

 Stem., rather long, about three quarters of an inch, slender, 

 and inserted in a small cavity : Skin, dull purplish red, little 

 spotted with yellowish dots, and covered with a thin violet 

 bloom : Flesh., yellow, little firm, but very melting, and slightly 

 adhering to the stone : Juice., abundant, rich, saccharine, 

 vinous, sprightly, and high-flavored : Stone, oval, rather small, 

 nearly smooth. Ripe in October, and keeps well. 



Wood, rather slender, downy. 



7. Cooper's. Coxa's View, &cc. 



Cooper's Large Red. Pomohgical Manual. 



Cooper's Large. Guide to the Orchard, Am. Ed. 



Smith's Orleans. Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. 



Smith's Orleans. Pomological Manual. 



Violet Perdrigon, i , . . . „ . 



„ J n , T} 5- Incorrectly, of some American collections. 



Red Magnum Bonum, J •" 



No plum of American origin has been so greatly confused 

 in its nomenclature as this, {^fig. 16.) Coxe first described it 

 in his excellent work, A View of the Cultivation of Fruit 

 Trees, &c. as long ago as 1817, and states that "it was pro- 

 duced from the stone of an Orleans plum planted by Mr. Jo- 

 seph Cooper, of Gloucester county. New Jersey." His de- 

 scription is complete, with one important omission, viz., the 

 adherence or non-adherence of the flesh to the stone ; and from 

 this cause has arisen much of the confusion now existing in 

 regard to this variety. 



In our volume for 1843, (IX. p. 410,) is a full account of 



