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XLI. PLUM TREE with the largest possible oval yellow fruit. 



DAME-AUBERT. GROSSE-LUISANTE. (PL XX. Fig. 10.) 



This is a very big plum with a very uniform oval shape. It's twenty-six lignes high 

 & its diameter is twenty-one-&-a-half lignes. It's divided lengthwise by a wide & not 

 very deep groove. Its stalk, quite a thick one, is straight and seven or eight lignes long. 

 It's set into a narrow & deep cavity at the bottom of which there's usually a small swelling 

 that holds the stalk without sticking to it. Its skin is yellow on the side facing the sun, 

 turning green on the opposite side and covered with very white bloom. It's thick & 

 leathery but it separates easily from the flesh. The flesh is yellow & coarse. The juice is 

 sweet but tasteless when the fruit is very ripe. Consequently this plum is satisfactoiy only 

 for compotes, as long as it's not allowed to get overripe. The pit is fifteen lignes long, 

 eight lignes wide, and six lignes thick. It ripens around the beginning of September. 



XLII. PLUM TREE with large very long green fruit. 

 ISLE-VERTE. ILEVERT. (PL XX. Fig. 9.) 



This plum tree does not grow big. 



The shoots are slender & longish, gray-white with a reddish tip verging on purple. 



The buds aren't very far apart from each other. They're rounded, not very pointed, 

 and not close to the branch. Their stems are small & projecting. 



The flowers are eleven lignes in diameter. The petals are long, narrow, & slightly 

 concave like a spoon. 



The leaves are oblong, wide at the tip and terminate in a point at the stalk, which 

 is green, almost white, and six lignes 



