74 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



has a deep groove. It doesn't cling to the flesh at all. 



This fruit ripens around the end of August. It's preferable to several kinds that are 

 more widely cultivated. 



X. PLUM TREE with small fruit flattened on all sides and with richer violet color. 

 Musk DAMSON. (PL XX. Fig. 3.) 



This plum tree is average in size & fruitfulness. 



The shoots are stout, quite long, yellowish gray, and very deep red-brown at the 



tip. 



The buds are small, pointed, not very far apart from each other, and lie almost flat 

 against the branch. 



The flowers are eleven lignes in diameter and have oval petals. Two or three 

 flowers emerge from the same bud. 



The leaves are three inches three lignes long, two inches wide, quite finely & not 

 very deeply denticulate. They're widest closer to the tip than near the stalk where they 

 terminate in a uniform point. The stalk, from eight to eleven lignes long, & most of the 

 midrib are cherry-red in color. 



The fruit is small and flattened at the middle & at the tip & at the stalk. A very 

 deep groove divides it lengthwise. The stalk, six lignes long, is white, slender, and is set 

 into a not very deep cavity. It's somewhat uneven in shape. The large diameter is fourteen 

 lignes, the small diameter is twelve-&-a-half lignes & it's twelve lignes high. 



Its skin is very dark purple, almost black, with a lot of bloom on it. 



Its flesh is yellow & quite firm. 



The juice is plentiful with an enhanced & musky flavor. 



The pit is six lignes long, six lignes wide, 



