464 'PLUMS. 



stone. Juice sub-acid, but not possessing any peculiar 

 flavour. 



Ripe the beginning of August. 



This is a very handsome little fruit ; although inferior 

 to some of the early sorts, it deserves cultivation. 



49 JAUNE HATIVE. Duhamel, No. 1. 1. 1. 



Prune de Catalogne. Ib. 



Prune de St. Barnabe. Bon Jard. 1897- p. 289. 



White Primordian. Langley, p. 90. t. 20. fig. 1 . 

 Miller, No. 1. 



Amber Primordian. Parkinson, No. 1, 



Catalonian. Of the Old Gardens. 



Branches slender, downy. Fruit small, oblong, 

 broader at the apex than at the base, having a shallow 

 suture extending the length of the fruit, about one 

 inch and a quarter in diameter. Stalk half an inch 

 long, slender. Skin pale yellow, covered with a very 

 thin white bloom. Flesh yellow, melting, and separates 

 from the stone. Juice sweet. 



Ripe on a south wall the middle of July. 



Langley, in his Pomona, says this plum ripened in 

 1727, at Twickenham in Middlesex, on a south-east 

 wall, June 9. O. S., or June 20. N. S. 



The Jaune Hative, although not possessing much 

 flavour, deserves to be cultivated against a south wall, 

 being the first plum which ripens. It is an old inhabit- 

 ant of our gardens, having been cultivated by John 

 Tradescant*, who obtained the title of gardener to 

 King Charles the First, and settled at his garden at 

 Lambeth, about the year 1629. 



50. MAITRE CLAUDE. Langley, Pom. t. 23. f. 6. 

 Miller, No. 14. 



Branches slender, downy. Fruit middle-sized, 

 rather more broad than long, a little compressed at its 



* Rees's Cyclop. 



