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light purple and covered with very fine golden yellow bloom on the shaded side. The 

 thick part of the shoot is greenish mixed with light gray. 



The buds are stout, short, pointed, and situated next to one another, making 

 almost a right angle with the branch. Their stems are thick & prominent. 



The flowers are about eleven or twelve lignes in diameter. They're usually 

 solitary. The petals are oval-oblong. 



The leaves are oval, twenty lignes long and fifteen lignes wide. Their 

 denticulation is barely discernible. They're concave like a boat & they often shrivel up in 

 different ways. The stalk is thick and five to eight lignes long. 



The fruit is medium-sized, very round at the middle without any lengthwise 

 groove or flattening dividing it lengthwise. Its stalk is seven lignes long & inserts into a 

 very small recess. The tip of the fruit is slightly flattened & in its center there's a cavity 

 that's very much wider & almost as deep as the one where the stalk inserts. The fruit is 

 sixteen lignes high & sixteen-&-a-half lignes in diameter. 



Its skin is a beautiful purple. It has a lot of bloom on it, it's very firm, but it peels 

 off easily. 



Its flesh is light yellow, tending slightly toward green on the side in the shade. 



The juice is plentiful, very sweet, more pleasant & flavorful than the Monsieur 

 plum to which it's usually compared. 



The pit adheres to the flesh in several places. It's seven-&-a-half lignes long, six 

 lignes wide and four lignes thick. Its ridge is very broad & the opposite edge is hollowed 

 with a deep groove like the pit of the red Perdrigon plum but the edges are smooth. 



This plum ripens at the beginning of September & lasts almost the whole month. 



