PLUMS. 709 



Kirke's Stoneless. See Stonelcss. 



Knevett's Late Orleans. See Nelson's Victory. 



KNIGHT'S GREEN DRYING (Large Green Drying}. Fruit, large ; 

 round, and marked with a shallow suture. Skin, greenish yellow, and 

 covered with thin white bloom. Flesh, yellowish, firm, not very juicy, 

 sugary, and richly flavoured when highly ripened ; adhering to the 

 stone. 



A dessert plum ; ripe in the middle and end of September, and 

 succeeds best against a wall. Shoots, smooth. 



Knight's No. 6. See Ickworth Imperatrice. 

 Lady Lucy. See La Delicieuse. 



LAFAYETTE. Fruit, above medium size ; oval. Skin, dark 

 purple, covered with a dense bloom. Flesh, juicy, rich, and of 

 excellent flavour, separating from the stone. 



Ripe in the end of September. Shoots, smooth. 



LARGE BLACK IMPERIAL. Fruit, as large as Red Magnum 

 Bonum; oval, with a well-defined suture, one side of which is often 

 larger than the other. Skin, very dark purple or rather dark maroon, 

 paler where shaded. Stalk, an inch long, very slender and green, set 

 in a wide depression. Flesh, yellow, firm, juicy, sweet, and of good 

 flavour, adhering to the stone. 



A fine large cooking plum ; ripe in the middle of September. 



Large Green Drying. See Knight's Green Drying. 



LARGE WHITE DAMASK (Damas Blanc; Gros Damas Blanc; 

 Damas Blanc Hdtif Gros; Damas Blanc Tres Hdtif). Fruit, rather 

 below medium size ; roundish, and slightly elongated, and swollen on 

 one side of the suture. Skin, membranous, greenish yellow, covered 

 with white bloom. Stalk, half an inch long, and stout, set in a small 

 cavity. Flesh, rather sweet, and pleasantly flavoured. 



Suitable either for dessert or culinary purposes, and is one of the 

 best of those varieties known by the name of Damas. The young 

 shoots are smooth. 



LATE GREEN GAGE (Reine Claude d'October; Heine Claude 

 Tardive). Fruit, of the same shape but smaller than the Green Gage. 

 Skin, greenish yellow, covered with thin white bloom. Stalk, stout, 

 three-quarters of an inch long. Flesh, green, juicy, rich, and sugary, 

 separating from the stone. 



A dessert plum ; ripe in the end of September and beginning of 

 October. Shoots, smooth. 



LATE RIVERS. Fruit, about the size of the Purple Gage, and 



