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to an inch long. The leaves are two inches nine lignes long by twelve or thirteen lignes 

 wide. Their denticulation is sharp, quite large & deep. 



The fruit is big, very long, and frequently not well formed. Sometimes it's 

 somewhat pear-shaped, enlarged at the top, & compact at the end near the stalk, which is 

 quite long & slender. Sometimes it's curved like a gherkin or irregularly distorted. When 

 it's well formed it comes to slightly more of a point at the stalk than at the top. Its greatest 

 diameter is approximately halfway along its length. There's no groove at all, but in the 

 middle of a flattening extending from the top to the stalk a darker green line is visible. 

 This side of the fruit is more convex along its length than is the opposite side. The fruit is 

 twenty-three lignes long & fourteen lignes in diameter. Its stalk is eight lignes long. 



Its skin is sour, leathery, green with light bloom, and sort of transparent. 



Its flesh is green, coarse, and mushy. 



The juice is a little tart, nevertheless sugary, but it has an unpleasant wild taste. 



The pit is very long, pointed, and clings to the flesh. It's fourteen lignes long, five 

 lignes wide, and three lignes thick. 



This plum ripens at the beginning of September. It's only good for compotes & in 

 preserves. Greengages & Perdrigons are far preferable to it for these purposes. 



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