PLUMS. 



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WHITE DIAPER. Pr. cat. 



Diapr6 blanc. Duh. 



Diapr^e blanche. Duh. Lond. Hort. cat. 



This plum is fifteen lines in length, and eleven in diameter ; 

 it is perfectly round, without any suture, and with simply a 

 green line running from the base to the extremity; the pe- 

 duncle is four to five lines long, and inserted even with the 

 surface of the fruit ; the skin is a whitish green, covered with 

 a bloom, and somewhat tough ; the flesh is rather firm, of a 

 very pale yellow hue, and of sweet and rich flavour ; the 

 stone is about nine lines in length, four in breadth, and two 

 and a half in thickness. The fruit is at maturity the end of 

 August or beginning of September. 



RED DIAPER. Pr. cat. 



Diapr^e rouge. Lond. Hort. cat. 

 Diapri rouge. Diapr^e rouge. Duh. Mil. 

 Roche Corbon. Duh. syn. Mil. 

 Roche Courbon. 



This is one of the most beautiful plums, but its quality does 

 not respond to its fine appearance ; it is of oval form, com- 

 monly swollen at the extremity, and contracted at its base, 

 which renders it nearly of the form of a pear. Duharael him- 

 self appears not to have seen this fruit when at its greatest 

 size, as he allows it to be but eighteen lines in length. The 

 editors of the New Duhamel remark, that they have never 

 seen any of such small dimensions, and that the largest they 

 had measured w'ere two inches long and twenty-one lines in 

 diameter at the largest section, and nineteen at the smallest 

 part; the peduncle is ten to thirteen lines in length ; the skin 

 is red and nearly of a cherry colour, with a partial degree of 

 bloom, and speckled with dots of a deeper red ; the flesh is of 

 a very pale green or whitish hue, and slightly adheres to the 

 stone ; it is at first rather firm, without any very pleasant taste, 

 and becomes at full maturity soft and sweetish, but devoid of 

 flavour. The stone is eleven lines to an inch in length, and 



