86 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



but the side down which it runs is slightly flattened, so the diameter measured from this 

 side is only fifteen-&-a-half lignes at most. It's more enlarged at the top than it is at the 

 stalk. 



Its skin is leathery, a beautiful purple verging on red, dusted with a white & 

 somewhat silvery bloom and speckled with very tiny golden yellow spots. 



Its flesh is light green, delicate & fine. 



The juice is very sweet, very flavorful & has a characteristic fragrance. 



The pit clings to the flesh. It's eight-&-a-ha!f lignes long, six lignes wide, and 

 three-&-a-half lignes thick. 



This plum is a variety of the preceding one. It's hardly different from it except in 

 color & the adherence of its pit. It ripens around the end of August. 



XXII. PLUM TREE with small, ovoid beautifully red fruit speckled with tan spots. 

 Red PERDRIGON. (PL XX. Fig. 6.) 



This plum tree is more fruitful & less inclined to abort than the other Perdrigons. 



The shoots are brown, slender, and very elongated. Their tips are dark red on the 

 side facing the sun & bright red on the opposite side. 



The buds are small and very pointed. They lie against the branch. Their stems 

 aren't very raised. 



Two or three flowers emerge from the same bud. They're an inch in diameter. The 

 petals are oval and flat. 



The leaves are of average size, elliptical in shape, and a bit wider near the stalk 

 than at the other end where they terminate in a sharp point. They're uniformly, finely, & 

 quite deeply denticulate. They're three inches long 



