72 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



This plum ripens at the beginning of September. 



VII. PLUM TREE with medium-sized, oblong, green to waxen fruit. 

 LARGE white DAMSON. (PL UI. Fig. 2.) 



The large white damson is medium-sized, slightly oblong, & more enlarged at the 

 top end than it is near the stalk. It's divided lengthwise more by a flattening than by a 

 groove. It's fourteen lignes in diameter & fifteen-&-a-haIf lignes long. The stalk is about 

 five or six lignes long, quite thick, and set into a very small recess. Its juice is sweeter & 

 better than that of the small damson. The skin & the flesh have the same color & 

 consistency. It ripens somewhat before the small damson does; the latter seems to be a 

 variety of the large one. 



VIII. PLUM TREE with medium-sized oval fruit, deep red on one side to pale red on the other. 

 Red DAMSON. 



This is not a very fruitful tree. 



Its shoots are very long, of average thickness, reddish, almost a lacquer color near 

 the tip. 



The buds are small and pointed. They lie against the branch and are not very far 

 apart from one another. The stems are quite elevated. 



The flowers are eleven lignes in diameter. The petals are oval and flat; some of 

 them are slightly puckered along the edges. 



The leaves are two inches ten lignes long and seventeen lignes wide. They're wide 

 at the tip but get uniformly narrower & terminate in a point at the stalk, which is a 

 whitish green and eight to ten lignes long. The denticulation is fine, sharp, and not very 

 deep. 



The fruit is medium-sized, oval in shape, and quite uniform. It's fourteen lignes in 

 diameter and sixteen lignes long. 



