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It's eight lignes long, six-&-a-half lignes wide, and four Hgnes thick. 



This plum ripens in August. It's unquestionably the best of all of the plums for 

 eating fresh. It makes very good compotes & extremely fine preserves. The prunes have 

 very good flavor but little body. 



XXVI. PLUM TREE with medium-sized, rounded-flattened green to white fruit. 

 Small GREENGAGE. 



This plum tree yields a lot of flowers & fruit. 



Its shoots are smaller than those of the Dauphine. The bark is dark reddish on the 

 side in the sun, green on the side in the shade, and covered with whitish down. 



The buds are long, very pointed and almost lie flat against the branch. Their stems 

 are thick. 



The flowers are eleven lignes in diameter. The petals are a little longer than they 

 are wide & are concave like a spoon. The tips of the stamens are very big. 



The leaves are a shiny green, slightly mealy underneath and smaller than those of 

 the Dauphine. 



The fruit is medium-sized, round, flattened, especially at the end near the stalk, & 

 divided lengthwise by a groove that's deeper than the one on the large greengage. It's 

 sixteen lignes in diameter & fifteen lignes high. The stalk is six-&-a-half lignes long and 

 is inserted into the middle of a quite deep cavity. 



Its skin is leathery, green tending to white and substantially covered with very 

 white bloom. 



Its flesh is white, firm, slightly dry and occasionally mealy. Sometimes it's quite 

 soft but a little coarse. 



