PLUMS. 



apex. Stalk short. Skin yellow, marbled with red 

 on the sunny side. Flesh yellow, and separates from 

 the stone. Juice sugary, and well flavoured. 



Ripe the middle of August. . 



This plum ripened at Twickenham, in 1727> on a 

 south-east wall, July 23. O. S., or August 3. N. S. 

 Langley. 



The Maitre Claude was known both to Switzer and 

 Hitt ; but is not mentioned either in Duhamel's Traite, 

 or in the Bon Jardinier of JVf. Noisette. 



51. MIRABELLE. Miller, No. 23. Duhamel,1So.29. 

 1. 14. 



White Mirable. Langley, p. 93. t. 23. f. 7. 



Fruit small, a little more long than broad, about an 

 inch in length. Stalk half an inch long. Skin yellow, 

 becoming of an amber colour as it ripens. Flesh yel- 

 low, and separates from the stone. Juice rich and 

 sugary. 



Ripe the middle of August. 



Ripened at Twickenham, 1729, on a standard, 

 July 20. O. S., or July 31. N. S. Langley. 



52. SAINT CATHARINE. Langley, p. 94. t. 24. fig. 4. 

 Miller, No. 21. 



Sainte Catherine. Duhamel, No. 43. t. 19- 

 Branches smooth. Fruit middle-sized, of an ob- 

 long figure, being broadest at the apex, and tapering 

 to the base, and having a narrow suture about one inch 

 and a half long, and nearly the same in diameter in its 

 widest part. Stalk three quarters of an inch long, 

 slender. Skin whitish, turning to a pale yellow as it 

 ripens, and tinged with a little russetty red on the 

 sunny side. Flesh pretty firm, yellow, and adheres to 

 the stone. Juice rich, sugary, and high-flavoured. 



Ripe the middle of September, with the Imperatrice, 

 and, like that, will hang and shrivel upon the tree. 



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