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with red streaks near the stone, from which it separates. 

 It is also called Early Tours. 



Jaime Hative is a very early plum, and deserving 

 cultivation on that account. The fruit is pale yellow, 

 with a little bloom, mellow but not fine in flavour, 

 rather long-shaped, broader at the apex than at the 

 the base, and with a suture down it. The stalk is of 

 medium length, and slender, and the flesh yellow, and 

 separating from the stone. On a south wall it will 

 ripen by the middle of July, and it has been known to 

 do so in June. It is the first plum that ripens, and is 

 one of the oldest kinds we have, having been cultivated 

 by John Tracdescant, the gardener of Charles the First. 

 The branches are slender and downy. Other names for 

 it are, Catalonian, Prune de St. Earnale, and several 

 besides. 



Early Favourite is an excellent early plum : dark purple 

 in the skin, fit for the table, and ripening late in July. 



Early Prolific is another valuable early purple plum, 

 good for eating, and ripening also in July. 



Violette Hative is a sweet and pleasant-flavoured, 

 deep violet, bloom-covered plum, rather oval, pointed 

 at the apex, compressed towards the stalk, and with a 

 shallow suture. The stalk is medium length, slender, 

 and inserted in a small shallow cavity, and the flesh 

 is green, and adheres to the stone. It ripens early 

 in August; the branches of the tree are numerous, 

 giender, and downy ; and it is a most capital bearer. It 

 has been cultivated in England as long as the Hative 

 Jaune. Other names for it are Violet and Early 

 Violet. 



That most delicious plum, the Greengage, should be 

 in every garden ; it is almost too well known to need 

 description. Its beautiful yellowish-green, middle-sized 

 plums have a most exquisite, sweet, and luscious flavour. 

 They are sometimes tinged on one side, and russety ; 

 there is a suture from the stalk to the apex ; the stalk is 

 of medium length, a little bent, and set in a small 

 funnel-shaped cavity ; and the flesh is yellowish-green, 

 very melting, and separates only partially from the 



