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Of these the first named is by far the most popular, and forms the true 
shipping prune of California. 
California, or P. d’ Agen. 
Bae 
Fig. 1. 
Branches of middling strength, bent at their very short internodes, of 
a deep brown on the shaded side, covered on the sunny side with a 
metallic whitish pellicle, smooth throughout their whole length. Wood 
buds small, conical, not very sharp, lying in a direction somewhat diverg- 
ing from the branch, borne on the salient supports, whose sides extend 
out to some extent; scales of a deep maroon, the outer ones bordered 
with whitish gray; shoots flexuous, smooth throughout; leaves hardly of 
medium size, oval-elliptic, or sometimes obovate, ending abruptly in a 
short point, concave and often slightly wavy in their outline, bordered 
with teeth deeply cut and rounded, or rather deeply crenated, well sup- 
ported on petioles of middling length and of middling strength, wine 
colored and very slightly downy; two small globular, yellow, pedicel- 
late glands attached to the base of the limb of the leaf. Fruit buds 
medium size, ovoid, not very sharp, gathered on, rather short and rather 
thick. Flowers rather large, petals rounded, somewhat incised or emar- 
ginated at their extremity, divisions of the calyx short, rather large and 
spread out, pendicles rather long, strong, and smooth. General hue of 
the foliage a light green, stiffness of all the leaves, petioles of the leaves 
well spread out and diverging, are the striking characteristics of the tree. 
Fruit medium size, exactly ovoid, more tapering on the side of the stock 
than on the side of the pistillary point, around which it is very obtuse, 
with the cheeks a little more convex than the faces, one of which is 
transversed by a scarcely appreciable furrow, and the other by a con- 
tinuation of the furrow deep enough to make the fruit appear as divided 
into two equal parts. Skin somewhat thick and firm, parting from the 
flesh, at first of a light purple, tinged with green; at maturity the purple 
