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of a good raifin. It makes a healthy treCy 

 but not a good bearer without more than 

 common care , for it bloffoms early, and 

 requires to be fheltered, if the weather is 

 frofty; admit it be either againft a wall or 

 in an efpalier, then it will do tolerably 

 well, if the horizontals are often renewed y 

 but I never faw it bear on a ftandard. 



The white Perdrigon is in fhape much 

 like the former, but fom'ewhat larger, and 

 ripens alfo about the fame time. It is of 

 a pale yellow colour, but covered with a 

 white powder ; the pulp is of a pale green, 

 full of a fweet juice, and leaves the ftone 

 dry, which is very fmall. Tho' this plum 

 is not fo good as the blue, yet it is a better 

 bearer, and drys well, and is worthy of a 

 wall, but I never faw it a ftandard. 



Of the Queen mother plums, I know 

 two forts, the white, and the red 3 they 

 are both alike in fhape and lize, that is, 

 round, and fmall, with fhprt ftalks^ and 

 ripen at the beginning of September 3 the 

 pulp of both is of a fine yellow colour, full 

 of a pleafant juice, and adheres to the 

 ftone. The young branches are of a brown 

 colour, and very fmooth -, the collaterals 



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