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THE PLUM. 



33. WHITE MAGNUM BONUM. Thomp. Lind. 



Yellow Magnum Bonnm. 

 White Mogul. 

 Wentworth. 

 White Imperial.* 

 White Holland. 



E<rg Plum. 



Yellow Egg. 



White Eg 



Magnum 

 of many 

 English 

 * gardens. 



,J 



of American 

 gardens. 



Dame Ambert. 

 Dame Ambert blanche. 

 Dame Ambert jaune. 

 Imperiale blanche. 

 Grosse Luisante. 



of the 



'French. 



The White Magnum Bonum, or Egg Plum, as it is almost 

 universally known here, is a very popular fruit, chiefly on ac- 

 count of its large and splendid appearance, and a slight acidity, 

 which renders it admirably fitted for making showy sweetmeats 



or preserves. When it is raised 

 in a fine warm situation, and is 

 fully matured, it is pretty well 

 flavoured, but ordinarily, it is 

 considered coarse, and as be- 

 longing to the kitchen, and not 

 to the dessert. 



Branches smooth, long. Fruit 

 of the largest size, measuring 

 six inches in its longest cir- 

 cumference, oval, narrowing a 

 good deal to both ends. Suture 

 well marked. Stalk about an 

 inch long, stout, inserted, with- 

 out cavity, in a folded border. 

 Skin yellow, with numerous 

 white dots, covered with thin 

 white bloom when fully ripe, 

 of a deep gold colour. Flesh 

 yellow, adhering closely to the 

 stone, rather acid until very 

 ripe, when it becomes sweet, 

 though of only second rate fla- 



Fig. 114. White Magnum Bonum. vour. Stem long, and pointed 

 at both ends. A pretty good bearer, though apt, in light soils, 

 to drop from the tree before matured. Middle of August. 



* There is really no practical difference between the White, and the Yellow 

 Magnum Bonum. The fruit is precisely similar in appearance and quality, 

 though the growth of the two trees may not fully agree. 



