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THE PLUM. 



YELLOW EGG. 



White Magnum Bonum. 

 Askew's Golden Egg. 

 Egg Plurn. 

 White Egg. 

 Magnum Bonum. 

 Yellow Magnum Bonum.* 

 White Mogul. 

 Wentworth. 



White Imperial. 

 White Holland. 

 Dame Aubert. 

 Dame Aubert blanche. 

 Dame Aubert jaune. 

 Imperial e blanche. 

 G-rosse Luisante. 

 Prune d'Inde blanc. 



The White Magnum Bonum, or Egg Plum, as it is almost universally 



known here, is a very popular fruit, 

 chiefly on account of its large and 

 splendid appearance, and a slight acid- 

 ity, which renders it admirably fitted 

 for making showy sweetmeats or pre- 

 serves. When it is raised in a fine 

 warm situation, and is fully matured, 

 it is pretty well flavored, but ordina- 

 rily it is considered coarse, and as be- 

 longing to the kitchen and not to the 

 dessert. Branches smooth, long. 



Fruit of the largest size, measur- 

 ing six inches in its longest circumfer- 

 ence, oval, narrowing a good deal to 

 both ends. Suture well marked. 

 Stalk about an inch long, stout, insert- 

 ed without cavity in a folded border. 

 Skin yellow, with numerous white 

 dots, covered with thin white bloom 

 when fully ripe, of a deep gold color. 

 Flesh yellow, adhering closely to the 

 stone, rather acid until very ripe, when 

 it becomes sweet, though of only 

 second-rate flavor. Stem long, and 

 pointed at both ends. A pretty good 

 o drop from the tree before matured. 



Yellow Egg. 



bearer, though apt, in light soils, 

 Middle of August. 



YELLOW IMPERATRICE. 

 Altesse Blanche. Monsieur a fruits Jaune. 



Branches smooth. 



Fruit large, roundish oval, marked with a suture, deep at apex, 

 shallow at the stalk. Skin deep golden yellow, with a few streaks of 

 red about the stalk. Flesh yellow, juicy, melting, sugary, rich, adheres 

 to the stone. Middle of August. (Hogg.) 



YOHE'S EAGLE. 



An accidental seedling in the garden of Caleb Yohe, Bethlehem, 

 Pa. 



* There is really no practical difference between the White and the Yellow 

 Magnum Bonum. The fruit is precisely similar in appearance and quality, though 

 the growth of the two trees may not fully agree. 



