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THE MIMMS PLUM. 



Mimms Plum. Hort. Transactions, vol. iv. p. 208. F)nit 

 Catalogue, p. 97. 



This variety is said to have been raised many 

 years since from a stone of the Blue Perdrigon 

 Plum ni the Garden of Henry Browne, Esq. at 

 North Mimms Place in Hertfordshire, and vv^as 

 exhibited at a meeting of the Horticultural Society 

 in 1819, by Mr. William Morgan, at that time 

 Gardener to Mr. Browne. 



The original tree is trained to a wall with an 

 eastern aspect, where it bears regularly and abund- 

 antly. The fruit is large and handsome, of a rich 

 reddish purple colour, in size and figure approaching 

 the Magnum Bonum, but more spherical. It is a 

 pleasant dessert plum, but its great excellence is as 

 a pie-fruit; it melts perfectly when baked, and 

 possesses that just proportion of acidity and sweet- 

 ness which is so essential to the confectioner, and 

 so rarely to be found. The tree succeeds well as 

 an open standard. 



There is a variety cultivated near Manchester, 

 under the name of the Imperial Diadem Plum, 

 that apparently is in no respect different from 



