100 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



& three lignes thick by fourteen lignes long. 



This plum, which is very beautiful, ripens a bit earlier than the preceding one. 



XXXIV. PLUM TREE with large, longer pale purple fruit. 

 JACINTHE. (PL XVI.) 



This is a vigorous tree. 



The shoots are medium-sized, long & straight and reddish at the tip. The rest is 

 sort of mottled with various colors: whites, greens, yellows, &c. 



The buds are small, short, and rest against the branch. Their stems are prominent. 



The flowers are medium-sized and very abundant. Often six or seven emerge 

 from the same node. The petals are oval. 



The leaves are three inches three lignes long, two inches wide, and slightly less 

 wide toward the stalk than at the other end. The denticulation on the margins is rounded 

 & not very deep. The stalk is six lignes long. 



The fruit is big, oblong, twenty lignes high by seventeen lignes in diameter and a 

 little more enlarged at the end near the stalk than at the end near the tip. When there's a 

 big difference in the enlargement, which is infrequent, it gives the fruit almost a heart 

 shape. The fruit is divided lengthwise by a not very discernible groove that usually 

 terminates at the top in a small indentation. The stalk is green, short, quite full, and is 

 attached to the bottom of a narrow but quite deep cavity. 



Its skin is light purple and covered with bloom. It's rather thick & firm and is 

 difficult to separate from the flesh. 



Its flesh is yellow, firm, and not as dry as that of the Imperiale. 



