WHITE OR YELLOW PLUMS. 



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Branches stout and smooth. Fruit very large, oval, flattened 

 at both ends. Skin bronze yellow, marked with roughish white 



dots, and clouded with 

 purplish red near the 

 stalk. The latter is 

 three-fourths of an inch 

 long, rather rough, in- 

 serted in a narrow round 

 cavity. Flesh deep yel- 

 low, a little coarse grain- 

 ed, but with acid flavour 

 when fully ripe. It ad- 

 heres a little to the stone, 

 which is much compress- 

 ed and furrowed. Ripens 

 the last of August. 



28. SAINT MARTIN'S 

 QUETSCHE. Thomp. 



A very late variety of 

 Prune, recently introdu- 

 ced from Germany, and 

 likely to take its place 

 among the select sorts. 

 Hardy and a good bearer. 

 Branches smooth. Fruit 

 Fig. ill. Orange Plum. of medium size, ovate, or 



considerably broadest towards the stalk. Skin pale yellow 



covered with a white bloom. Flesh 



yellowish, with a rich and excel- 

 lent flavour, and separates readily 



from the stone. The tree is a good 



bearer, and the fruit hangs a long 



while on the tree, but we fear that 



to the northward of this it may not 



come to full maturity every season. 



Ripens the first of October, and will 



hang a month. 



29. SAINT CATHERINE. Thomp. 

 Lind. O. Duh. 



Among the fine old varieties of 

 late plums, the St. Catherine is one 

 of the most celebrated. In France 

 it is raised in large quantities, in 

 some districts making the most de- Fig. 112. St. Catherine. 



