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lines long and nine and a half broad. This fruit ripens at the 

 end of August or the beginning of September ; it cannot be 

 ranked among the choice varieties, but deserves to be culti- 

 vated on account of its beauty and its enormous size. The 

 tree is of very strong and vigorous growth, and is seldom or 

 never attacked by the insects which cause large knots and 

 excrescences on many other varieties. It is very productive, 

 and the fruit is esteemed for making preserves. There exists 

 much confusion in the application of the synonymes of this 

 plum and the White Imperial ; for while this is the kind almost 

 invariably cultivated in our gardens, the titles which belong to 

 that variety are generally applied to it. Langley, it will be 

 perceived, by referring to the synonymes, calls this the Went- 

 worth plum, and he remarks that its form, colour, and taste, 

 are exactly the same as the Mogul, (White Imperial,) but that 

 the latter cleaves to the stone, and this parts freely from it, on 

 which account this was the most esteemed for preserves. 

 There are, at present, several varieties of this plum, producing 

 red, violet, and white fruit. 



WHITE IMPERIAL. Pr. gat. Mxl. For. 



Imperial hlanc. Imperiale blanche. Duh. 



Imperiale blanche. Lond. Hort. cat. 



Mogule. White Bonum Magnum. } j 



White Holland. Dutch plum. ^ °* 



White Imperial. Bonum Magnum. } jyj.j p^^. 



White Holland. Mogul, or Egg plum. J 



White Egg plum. 



This variety has been supposed by many to be synonymous 

 with the Yellow Egg, but they are described as distinct by 

 Duhamel, Langley, and other writers, and so enumerated in 

 various French publications, and in the catalogues of their 

 nurseries. The tree is of very vigorous growth, and resem- 

 bles the Yellow Egg in its general appearance. The fruit is 

 very large, of the form, and almost of the size, of an egg ; the 

 skin is whitish, or a pale yellow ; the flesh is whitish, of a firm 

 consistence, and dry, with an acid and unpleasant flavour ; the 

 Mesh adheres to the stone, which is long and pointed. This 



