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and three lignes thick. It doesn't cling to the flesh at all. 



This plum is excellent both fresh & in preserves. It's used to make sun-dried 

 prunes called Brugnolles because they come from a village in Provence of that name. 



It ripens at the beginning of September. When this plum tree grows in the right 

 soil, its fruit is big beyond description. 



XXI . PL UM TREE with medium-sized longish fruit turning from beautiful purple to red marked 

 with yellow spots. 



Purple PERDRIGON. (PL IX.) 



This tree sets fruit with difficulty when it's out in the open. It prefers an espalier. 



The shoots are long & strong. Their bark is deep purple on the side in the sun & 

 red mixed with purple on the opposite side. The thick part of the shoot is yellow-green. 



The buds are large, pointed and set apart from the branch. Often there are double 

 & even triple buds near the end of the shoot. Their stems are moderately raised. 



The flowers are eleven lignes in diameter. Their petals are round & the tips of the 

 stamens are a very pale yellow. 



The leaves are four inches long and two inches wide. They're narrower than those 

 of most other plum trees. They're uniformly but not very deeply denticulate & 

 bidenticulate. They're much wider at the tip than at the stalk, where they terminate in a 

 uniform point. Their stalk is ten to twelve lignes long. 



The fruit is medium-sized and slightly oblong. It's seventeen lignes long by 

 sixteen-&-a-half lignes in diameter. The stalk of the fruit is nine lignes long and is set 

 into the bottom of a small but deep cavity. The groove is not very distinct, 



