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plum is not suitable for the table nor for prunes, but is used 

 for preserves, and is particularly remarkable on account of its 

 handsome form and extremely large size. It ripens in Sep- 

 tember, and is very productive. Miller copies his description 

 of this fruit from the first edition of Duhamel, and Forsyth 

 from the new edition of the same work, notwithstanding which 

 it is more than probable that the Yellow Egg is the fruit that 

 has been long cultivated, and generally known in England 

 under the titles they give for this variety, as this is much the 

 most rare in gardens and nurseries, and indeed but seldom to 

 be met with, while the Yellow Egg is found in almost every 

 collection. 



YELLOW IMPERIAL. Auth. 

 Imperial jaune. Imperiale jaune. Duh. Calvel. 

 This fruit is nearly as large as a small sized e^g of the 

 common fowl ; the skin is yellow and of rather a deeper shade 

 next the sun than on the other side; the flesh is yellowish, 

 sweet, with a small degree of acidity, and separates readily 

 from the stone. This Plum ripens the middle of August. 



TOMLINSON'S CHARLOTTE. Pr. cat. Pr. hort. 

 Charlotte. 

 This variety I received from my friend, Judge Tomlinson j 

 it was originated by him from the seed of the Yellow Egg 

 plum, and he gave it the name of Charlotte, after a lady of 

 Schenectady, to which I have subjoined his cognomen. It is 

 an early yellow fruit, of the shape of its parent, but different 

 in quality, being sweet and agreeable in flavour, and better 

 calculated for the table. It ripens about the middle of August. 

 The growth of the tree is exceedingly vigorous, and perhaps 

 not exceeded by any other of its class. 



IMPERIAL VIOLET. Pr. cat. Duh. Coxe. 



Purple Egg. Pr. Hort. Pr. cat. 26th ed. 

 Imperiale violette. Duh. syn. Lond. Hort. cat. 

 Prime-muf. Prune d'oeuf. \ Imperiale. Mil. 

 Red Imperial. Red Bonum Magnum. Mil. For. 

 Large Orlean. 



This is a beautiful fruit, of oval form, nineteen to twenty 



lines long, and fifteen to sixteen in diameter ; it is divided on 



