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againft a wall of fome kind or other. It 

 ripens at the latter end of September. 



The Reine Claude is fomewhat long, of 

 a iT.iddle-fize, a yellow colour thinly cover- 

 ed with a white powder, and the fide next 

 the fun is fpotted with red; the pulp is 

 firm, of a yellow colour, comes clean from 

 the fcone, and is full of a fweet juice of an 

 agreeable tafte. They ripen fome in Sep- 

 tember, and fome in Oftober. I have not 

 k^n this kind any other way but againft a 

 wall, and there it bears plentifully. 



The red and wdiite magnum bonum 

 plulns are both very large in fize, and 

 i]]iaped like an egg, a little furrowed on 

 the fide. They are neither of them very 

 good to eat raw, but are both greatly 

 efteemcd for preferving; and I have known 

 the white fort when full grown, but not ripe, 

 made ufe of for mangoes. They generally 

 ripen at the latter end of September -, their 

 leaves and fhoots are very large; they bear 

 well either againft a vv^all or in an efpalier; 

 but their horizontals require to be at a 

 greater diftance from one another than 

 thofe forts that are fmaller. 



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