PLUM.-PRUNUS. 



In Botany, of the Icosandria Monogynia 

 Class. 



PLUMS are so numerous in their varieties* 

 that to describe them separately would be 

 endless, as not only every country, but almost 

 every district, has its peculiar sorts of this 

 fruit. 



The Grecians added to their native plums 

 those of Syria, Egypt, and Persia, and the 

 Romans not only possessed themselves of 

 the plums of all the known world, but em- 

 ployed their ingenuity in making additional 

 varieties. Columella, in his tenth book, 

 speaking of this fruit, says 



then are the wicker baskets cramm'd 



With Damask and Armenian, and wax plums. 



Pliny states, in his fifteenth book, chap. 



