PR UN US, PLUM TREE. Ill 



XLV. PLUM TREE from Virginia with large, longish almost cherry-colored fruit. 

 Virginia PLUM TREE. 



This tree, brought to us from the Virginia coast, grows to an average size & yields 

 little fruit. It's very bushy & its shoots are quite long. The leaves are oblong & wider at 

 the tip than near the stalk. The flowers are small, white, & there are so many of them that 

 the tree seems to be completely white when it's in bloom. 



The fruit is quite big, longish, and suspended on a long stalk that's set flush with 

 the fruit. Its skin is red, almost like a cherry. Its flesh is very white, firm, & a little dry. 

 The juice has a not very pleasant acidity. The pit doesn't cling to the flesh. 



This tree deserves to be in an ornamental garden because of its flowers rather than 

 in an orchard for its fruit. 



XL VI. PLUM TREE with medium-sized round fruit with the shape & color of a cherry. 

 MIRABOLAN. (PL XX. Fig. 15.) 



This tree grows large & very bushy. 



The shoots are slender, a light red-brown, and full of buds. Normally each node 

 has one wood bud situated between two fruit buds. The fruiting branches are short and 

 terminate in a group of eight or nine buds. 



The buds are very small & pointed. 



The flowers are eleven lignes in diameter. They have five, six, seven, or eight 

 petals. Those with more than six petals have two pistils. The indentations in the calyx are 

 the same in number as the petals. The petals are white, but as the interior margins of the 

 calyx are lightly tinged with red, the center of the flower appears to be that color. The 

 pedicels are six lignes long; 



