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and has the same shape. Consequently in many areas it's only fourteen lignes in diameter 

 & thirteen high. Its groove is no deeper than that on the Dauphine. Its stalk inserts into 

 quite a wide & deep cavity. 



Its skin is green. It often turns yellow when the fruit ripens. 



Its flesh is coarser than that of the small greengage and yellow when the skin 

 turns that color. 



The juice is average in quality. It becomes quite tasteless when the fruit is 

 extremely ripe. 



The pit clings to the flesh. 



This plum tree deserves to be grown more for its flowers than for its fruit, which 

 ripens at the same time as the Dauphine. 



The fruit of the semi-double flowered plum tree that we grow at Denainvilliers is 

 big. It's flattened at the end where its stalk, about three or four lignes long, inserts into a 

 wide & very deep cavity. The top end is much smaller than the one near the stalk. The 

 diameter of this fruit is nineteen lignes & its height is eighteen lignes. Its groove is well 

 marked & sometimes quite deep. The juice is very plentiful & pleasant though not that 

 flavorful. So if this plum tree were more productive, it would be well worth cultivating 

 for its fruit. 



The leaves are small & almost round. 



XXVIII. PLUM TREE with large, rounded-flattened fruit, whitish-green on one side to 

 somewhat red on the other. 



ABRICOTEE. (PL XIII.) 



This tree grows large. 



Its shoots are stout, long & vigorous. They're brown and covered with whitish 

 down. The tips are dark purple on the side facing the sun and green on the side in the 

 shade. 



