PLUMS. 



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RED PERDRIGON. Pr. cat". Foe. Coxe. 

 Perdrigon rouge. Duh. Lond. Hort. cat. 

 This fruit is nearly ovate, very round in its circumference, 

 and devoid of any apparent suture ; it is fifteen to sixteen 

 lines in length, and fourteen to fifteen in diameter, and sup- 

 ported on a peduncle eight or nine lines long, which is in- 

 serted in a very small cavity ; the skin is of a very red colour, 

 approaching somewhat to violet, covered with bloom, and 

 marked with very small fawn coloured dots ; the flesh, which 

 is light yellow on the sunny side and greenish on the other, is 

 somewhat firm, very sWeet, rich and separates easily from the 

 stone, which has a very wide and deep groove on one of its 

 edges. This is an excellent plum, and does not ripen until 

 September. The tree is more fruitful and the blossoms are 

 less subject to blight than those of the two preceding varieties. 

 I presume Coxe refers to this plum in his description, although 

 he varies from its true character in some particular points. 



BRIGNOLE. Pk. cat. Duh. Mil. Calyel. Loxd. Hort. 



CAT. 



Perdrigon de Brignole ? 

 This plum takes its name from the town of Brignole, in 

 France, in the neighbourhood of which it is very extensively 

 cultivated for the purpose of making those excellent prunes 

 known under the same title, and which are exported to every 

 part of Europe. Duhamel confounds this variety with the 

 White Perdrigon, but it differs from it in several respects; 

 the fruit is of larger size, the skin less tough, and the flesh is 

 yellow and not of a greenish white hue. It ripens in the south 

 of France about the middk of August. There are two va- 

 rieties of this plum. 



ORLEANS. Pr. cat. La^g. Mil. For. Loisd. Hort. cat. 

 • Coxe. 



Old Orleans. Red Damask. English Orleans. 

 Common Orleans. Red Orleans. Large red Orleans. 



The fruit is round and of medium size ; the skin is of a deep 

 red colour mingled with violet next the sun, and of a more 



