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The diameter of the fruit is much smaller at that end than at the top. There's no 

 discernible groove but only a minor flattening without an indentation. 



Its skin is purple with a lot of bloom on it. It peels off the flesh when the fruit is 

 very ripe. 



Its flesh is yellow & firm. 



The juice is very sweet but still retains a slight tartness. 



The pit adheres to the flesh at only one small spot on its side. It's eight lignes 

 long, six lignes wide, and lour lignes thick. 



This plum, which can be numbered among the best, ripens at about the end of 

 August. 



VI. PLUM TREE with small somewhat rounded green to waxen fruit. 

 SMALL white DAMSON. (PL HI.) 



This is a small fruit, almost round, and measures about an inch in each direction. 

 It's attached by a slender stalk four lignes long that barely penetrates the fruit. Normally 

 the fruit is slightly longer than it is in diameter. It's fuller at the tip than near the stalk. It's 

 flattened at the middle so the distance from the groove to the opposite side in one 

 direction is one ligne more than it is in the other direction. The groove is seldom 

 discernible. 



Its skin is leathery, yellowish green, and covered with white bloom. 



Its flesh is yellowish and succulent. 



The juice is quite sweet but it has a slight wild plum flavor. Nonetheless it's 

 pleasant. 



The pit is seven lignes long, four-&-a-half lignes wide, three-&-a-half lignes thick 

 and doesn't adhere to the flesh at all. 



