PRUNUS, PLUM TREE. 97 



The juice is extremely sweet & has a very fine flavor. 



The pit is small, six lignes long, five lignes wide, and four lignes thick. It doesn't 

 cling to the flesh, although it doesn't separate from it cleanly. 



This plum, which appears to be sort of transparent, ripens around the twelfth of 

 August. 



I think Merlet was right to rank the Cloth of Gold & the mirabelle with the 

 damson plum. 



XXXI . PL UM TREE with small more elongated green to yellow fruit pointed at both ends, 

 BRICETTE. (PI. XX. Fig. 5.) 



This is a small plum that's fifteen lignes high & twelve-&-a-half lignes in 

 diameter. It terminates in a point at both ends, but it's more oblong at the top than it is 

 near the stalk. There's no detectable groove on it, only the side where it would normally 

 run lengthwise is slightly flattened. The stalk, quite a full one and eight-&-a-half lignes 

 long, is set almost flush with the fruit on a small flattening rather than into a recess. Its 

 skin is green-yellow, quite covered with bloom, which makes it appear white. The skin is 

 firm but it peels off the flesh when the fruit is fully ripe. The flesh is firm and tends to be 

 yellow. The juice is quite plentiful and slightly tart. The pit is eight lignes long, five-&-a- 

 half lignes wide, and three-&-a-half lignes thick. It doesn't cling to the flesh at all. This 

 plum lasts a long time. In some years the first ones ripen at the beginning of September & 

 the last ones at the end of October. 



