412 Smith's Orleans Plum. 



caped him, says that the description was in the first place 

 prepared from his lather's notes, and that it is not unUkely 

 that he, in copying, might have ahered or transposed a 

 word or two. The tree in question, however, so remarka- 

 ble for its long purplish shoots, and its abundant crops of 

 large oval^jmrple. clingstone., plum, is the Smith's Orleans, 

 and in publishing the following description, carefully pre- 

 pared last season with the fruit before me, I indulge the 

 hope that all our cultivators, who, under the circumstances 

 have with propriety doubted its title as Smith's Orleans, 

 and have therefore continued other names, will at once re- 

 store its true appellation. 



Smith's Orleans Plum. Pojn. Man. Vol. II., p. 68. 



Red Magnum Bonnm, ") 



Duane's Purple, 



Large Purple, I Erroneously called in some 



Violet Perdrigon of our catalogue for j American gardens. 



1843, and of several other American | 



Nurseries. J 



Shoots very thrifty and long, reddish purple, smooth. In 

 bearing trees, however, the young wood of the spurs is 

 35. downy, and the petioles of the 



leaf hairy ; fruit, large, oval, 

 somewhat irregular, and in- 

 clining to oblong ; suture 

 strongly marked on one side ; 

 stalk small for so large a fruit; 

 being only | to f of an inch 

 long, inserted in a rather nar- 

 row depression : skin reddish 

 or violet-purple, covered with 

 a pale blue bloom : flesh, deep 

 yellow, juicy, of very sprightly, 

 vinous flavor ; (sweet, but not 

 so rich and cloying as are many 

 plums,) and adheres closely to 

 the stone ; leaves, rich dark 

 green on the upper surface, 

 Smiih-s Orleans Plum. ^ud a good deal plaited or 



crimped. This variety bears regular and abundant crops, 

 even when many other sorts fail, and is a valuable fruit, 

 either for kitchen or desert use. Ripe, middle of August to 

 1st of September. 



