104 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



XXXVIII. PLUM TREE with small oval-oblong green to white fruit. 

 White VARIEGATED PLUM. (PL XX. Fig. 11.) 



The shoots of this plum tree are thick & long, well-rounded, dark purple on the 

 side in the sun & almost lilac on the opposite side. 



The buds are small, very pointed, and rest against the branch. Their stems are big 

 & wide. 



The flowers are ten lignes in diameter. Their petals are four-&-a-half lignes long 

 & three lignes wide. Some have six & others have seven petals; generally one of them is 

 only a tip of a stamen that's a little open. 



The leaves are long, narrow, and come to a point at both ends. The point is 

 considerably more elongated at the stalk, which is slender and eleven lignes long. The 

 margins of the leaves aren't very deeply denticulate. The leaves are three inches two 

 lignes long & thirteen lignes wide. 



The fruit is small, oval-oblong in shape. It's fifteen lignes long & ten-&-a-half 

 lignes in diameter. It's round around the middle and has no groove or flattening but only a 

 green line that runs from the tip to the stalk. Its stalk is about four or five lignes long & is 

 set flush with the fruit. 



Its skin is a green, almost white, and is covered with white bloom. It's firm and 

 bitter, but it peels off the flesh quite easily. 



The flesh is firm and very light yellow. 



The juice is very sweet, flavorful & very fine when the tree is planted on espalier. 



The pit is nine-&-a-half lignes long, four lignes wide, and two-&-a-half lignes 

 thick. 



