66 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



with a style surmounted with a stigma, resting on a fleshy ovary. 



The fruit varies in size & shape depending on its the type. It has a smooth skin & 

 has no down, but it's covered with a whitish powder called bloom. The color, 

 consistency, and flavor of the skin varies; on some it's adherent and peels off easily on 

 others. Its flesh is succulent & also varies in consistency, color, & flavor. At the center of 

 the fruit there's a woody pit that varies in shape & size. It's hard, flattened, rough, and 

 sometimes slightly fissured. It contains a bitter kernel covered with a skin & consisting of 

 two lobes & a germ. Most plums hang from the branch on long & slender stalks that 

 insert into a more or less hollow cavity at the end of the fruit. Some are flatter & are 

 divided from the top to the stalk by a groove; others are round around the middle. All of 

 these are differences in the fruit, flowers, & leaves that determine the types & varieties of 

 plum trees. We'll omit many of them that are of no interest in terms of their fruit or any 

 beneficial feature. 



TYPES AND VARIETIES. 



I. PLUM TREE with small, long, waxen early fruit. 

 Yellow early PLUM. Catalonia PLUM. (PI I.) 



This plum tree grows to an average height. It's very fruitful. 

 The shoots are slender, very long, and light gray. Their tips are purple. 

 The buds are small and their stems aren't very prominent. 

 The flowers are thirteen lignes in diameter. The petals are longish, six lignes by 

 three lignes. 



