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PLUMS. 



53. WASHINGTON. Pom. Mag. t. 16. 

 New Washington. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 270. 

 Franklin. Ib., according to the Pom. Mag. 

 Branches downy. Fruit regularly oval, with a very 



obscure suture just at the stalk, where it is rather deep, 

 about one inch and three quarters long, and one inch 

 and five eighths in diameter. Stalk three quarters of 

 an inch long, slightly pubescent. Skin dull yellow, 

 broken a little with green, assuming an orange cast on 

 the sunny side, with a purplish bloom, and more or 

 less mottled with crimson dots. Flesh yellow, firm, 

 very sweet and luscious, separating freely from the 

 stone. Stone oval, acute at each end, wrinkled all 

 over, and nearly even at the edges. 



Ripe in September. 



The parent tree of the Washington Plum, it appears, 

 was purchased in the market of New York, towards the 

 end of the last century. It remained barren several 

 years, till during a violent thunder-storm, the whole 

 trunk was struck to the earth and destroyed. The root 

 afterwards threw up a number of vigorous shoots, all 

 of which were allowed to remain, and finally produced 

 fruit. It is therefore to be presumed, that the stock 

 of the barren kind was the parent of this. Trees were 

 sent to Robert Barclay, Esq., of Bury Hill, in 1819 ; 

 and in 1821, several others were presented to the Hor- 

 ticultural Society by Dr. Hosack, of New York. It 

 fruits equally well on an east and west wall ; but om a 

 south it is found to be too hot, the fruit becoming 

 smaller, with many black specks. There is no doubt 

 it will bear abundantly as a standard. 



54. WENTWORTH. Miller, No. 26. Langley, Pom. 

 t. 25. f. 4. 



Dame Aubert. Duhamel, No. 41. t. 20. f. 10. 

 Grosse Luisante. Ib. 



