NeiD Plum — Drap d' Or of Esperin. 



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flesh, which readily separates from the stone, surpasses in 

 flavor that of the Mirabelle Double, or Drap d'Or, which it 

 approaches in its general form, and from which it has been 



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Fig.Tl. Drap d' Or of Esperin. 



named. It ripens in the latter part of August ; its form is 

 oval, regular, from ten to twelve centimetres in circumfer- 

 ence, about the middle of the fruit ; the skin is of a beautiful 

 yellow, veined and reticulated with green, under its trans- 

 parent epidermis. It resembles much, according to M. Berck- 

 mans, the Washington, but is different in its flavor, more 



