110 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



The pit is eight-&-a-half lignes long, five-&-a-half lignes wide, and three-&-a- 

 half lignes thick. It doesn't cling to the flesh at all. 



This plum is delicious fresh & in preserves. It ripens around mid-September. It's 

 somewhat vulnerable to worm infestation. 



XLI V. PLUM TREE with very small blackish fruit without a pit. 



PLUM TREE with fruit lacking a pit and equipped with an osseous circular segment. 

 Act. Ac. R. P. 



SEEDLESS PLUM. (PL XX. Fig 14.) 



The shoots of this plum tree are blackish or deep purple. The flowers are ten 

 lignes in diameter & their petals are round & very concave spoonlike. The leaves are 

 oblong, finely denticulate on the margins, green-brown above & pale green underneath, 

 and they come to a sharp point. They're two-&-a-half inches long and eighteen lignes 

 wide. They're widest near their center. 



The fruit is small and olive-shaped. It's a bit smaller at the tip than at the end near 

 the stalk; the stalk is about five or six lignes long. The fruit is eight-&-a-half lignes long 

 & seven-&-a-half lignes in diameter. Its black or dark purple skin is covered with bloom. 

 Its flesh is yellow, tending toward green. The juice is sour, & when the fruit becomes 

 extremely ripe the sourness is lost and it becomes tasteless. The kernel is big, well 

 shaped, and bitter. There's no pit around it and doesn't cling to the flesh at all. Frequently 

 there's a woody strip in a sort of semicircle, like the rim of an eyeglass, around it. 



This plum ripens at the end of August & is merely a curiosity. 



