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twelve or fifteen days after the Monsieur Hdtif. Branches 

 very downy ; leaves glaucous. August. 



41. MOROCCO. 



BLACK MOROCCO, EARLY MOROCCO, BLACK DAMASCUS, EARLY 



BLACK DAMASK, according to the Pom. Mag. 

 A blackish purple fruit, of medium size, covered with 

 pale blue bloom ; globular, a little depressed ; the flesh 

 greenish yellow ; juice rich and high-flavored. A produc- 

 tive, fruit. Branches downy; the leaves having globose 

 glands. July. 



42. ^ORLEANS. 



DAMAS ROUGE of the French. RED DAMASK. 

 A middle-sized fruit, globular; of a red color, but blue 

 or purple next the sun, and covered with bloom ; the flesh 

 is pale yellow, juicy, rich, and astringent, and readily parts 

 from the stone. A great and constant bearer, and very 

 valuable fruit. The branches downy. It ripens in August. 



43. *POND'S PURPLE. 



A large, round, purple plum, of a sweet and fine flavor. 

 It ripens early in August, and was so named, by the com- 

 mittee of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, for Mr. 

 Samuel Pond, of Cambridge, who has introduced this new 

 kind to notice. A new and handsome fruit, which origi- 

 nated in the garden of the late Henry Hill, Esq., in Summer 

 Street, Boston. 



44. PRECOCE DE TOURS. Hooker's Pom. Lond. 

 EARLY DE TOURS. Ib. 



The tree is vigorous and fertile ; the fruit the best early 

 variety in Britain ; small, oval, dark purple, covered with 

 fine bloom ; flesh greenish yellow, tender, juicy, of very 

 agreeable flavor; branches downy. It ripens in July. 



45. *PRUNE D'AGEN. Thompson. Bon Jard. 

 Form oblong ; color blue black ; of medium size, and 



excellent. Ripe in Sept. Branches smooth; the tree 

 bears well. These form the famous prunes of Agen. 



46. *PRINCE'S IMPERIAL GAGE. 



WHITE GAGE. 



An eminently valuable fruit; the tree is very vigorous 

 and upright in its growth, and extraordinary productive. 

 The fruit is larger than the Green Gage, and of excellent 

 quality. A single tree of this variety, at Charlestown, 

 owned by Mr. Samuel R. Johnson, has, for several suc- 

 cessive years, yielded crops, which were sold at from forty 



