94 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



The buds are medium-sized, spaced not far apart from one another and seem to 

 adhere to the branch. Their stems are broad, grooved, & quite elevated. 



The flowers are thirteen lignes in diameter. The petals are longer than they are 

 wide and almost oval. 



The leaves are shiny green, three inches four lignes long, seventeen lignes wide, 

 and much narrower & more pointed toward the stalk than they are at the other end. Their 

 denticulation is fine, even, sharp, and not very deep. Their stalk is seven lignes long. The 

 leaves on the shoots are shaped like short rackets twenty-five lignes long by twenty lignes 

 wide at the end opposite the stalk. Their denticulation is barely discernible. 



The fruit is bigger & more elongated than the small greengage, which it resembles 

 a great deal. It's eighteen lignes in diameter & it's sixteen-&-a-half lignes long. Its stalk is 

 short and is set almost flush with the fruit or in a very small indentation. The groove 

 dividing it lengthwise along one side is deep & wide, especially at the top end where it 

 terminates in a small indentation. 



Its skin is tart, leathery, whitish green on the side in the shade and marked with 

 red on the side toward the sun. 



Its flesh is vellow and firm. 



The juice is musky, quite pleasant & plentiful when the fruit is fully ripe. But it 

 almost always retains a bit of a wild taste. 



The pit doesn't cling to the flesh at all. It's seven-&-a-half lignes long, six-&-a- 

 half lignes wide, and three-&-a-half lignes thick. 



This plum ripens at the beginning of September. It's an extremely good fruit, 

 almost comparable to the greengage. 



The apricot plum is longer than the Abricotee. 



