PLUMS. 717 



PERDRIGON VIOLET HATIF. Fruit, medium sized ; roundish 

 oval. Skin, purple. Flesh, rich, juicy, and excellent, separating from 

 the stone. 



A first-rate dessert plum ; ripe in the middle of August. The tree 

 is very hardy, and an abundant bearer. Shoots, downy. 



This is not the same as Perdrigon Hat if and Moyeu de Bourgogne, with which 

 it is made synonymous in the Horticultural Society's Catalogue, both of these being 

 yellow plums. 



PERSHORE. Fruit, about medium size ; obovate, pinched-in at 

 the stalk, and like a small white Magnum Bonum. Skin, yellow, with 

 a golden tinge. Flesh, tender, with a fine subacid flavour, and adhering 

 to the stone. 



An excellent baking and preserving plum ; ripe in the middle and 

 end of August. It is largely grown in the Vale of Evesham, for the 

 supply of the Birmingham markets. Shoots, smooth. 



Petite Bricette. See Bricette. 

 Petite Damas Vert. See Yellow Gage. 

 Pickett's July. See White Primordian. 

 Pigeon's Heart. See Queen Mother. 

 Pond's Purple. See Pond's Seedling. 



POND'S SEEDLING (Farleif/h Castle; Fonthill ; Pond's Purple). 

 Fruit, very large ; oval, widest at the apex, and narrowing towards 

 the stalk, marked with a wide suture. Skin, fine dark red, thickly 

 strewed with grey dots, and covered with thin bluish bloom. Stalk, 

 three-quarters of an inch long, inserted without depression. Flesh, 

 yellowish, rayed with white, juicy, and briskly flavoured, adhering to 

 the stone. 



A valuable culinary plum ; ripe in the beginning and middle of Sep- 

 tember. Shoots, smooth. 



POUPART'S. Fruit, medium sized; nearly round, and very much 

 resembling that of Purple Gage. Skin, light purple, dotted and 

 streaked with purple. Flesh, reddish, sweet, and with somewhat of 

 the astringent flavour of the sloe, separating from the stone. 



This is an excellent preserving plum, and the tree is an enormous 

 bearer. It is therefore very valuable to the market gardener, and also 

 because of the firmness of the flesh enabling the fruit to be sent to 

 great distances. 



It was raised by Mr. Poupart, market gardener at Brompton. 



PRECOCE DE BERGTHOLD. This is a small, short oval plum, 

 about the size of Mirabelle Petite, of a yellow colour, similar in appear- 

 ance to, but of better flavour than, White Primordian. The flesh is 



