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PLUMS. 



very small fawn-coloured dots; the flesh is greenish yellow, 

 rather firm, of a sweet and pleasant flavour, and does not ad- 

 here to the stone, which is nine lines long, and rather more 

 and seven in breadth. This plum ripens from the fifteenth of 

 August to the end of the same month, and is esteemed as an 

 excellent firuit. It is said to be subject in France to the at- 

 tacks of worms, but I am not aware that is particularly so [in 

 our country, where, however, it has not been cultivated but a 

 few years. There are two varieties, one producing larger, 

 and the other smaller fruit. 



EARLY BLACK DAMASK. Pr. cat. 



Damas noir hatif. N. Duh. Lend. Hort. cat. 

 Saint Cyr. 



This plum is small and flattened at its extremity ; it is only 

 twelve lines in length, and thirteen in its greatest diameter; 

 the peduncle is five lines long ; the skin is of a deep violet co- 

 lour, covered with bloom ; the flesh is greenish, melting, 

 sweet, and of pleasant flavour ; the stone is seven and a half 

 lines in length, and six in breadth, and adheres but very little 

 to the flesh. The fruit ripens about the middle of July. 



MOROCCO. Ph. cat. Lang. Pom. Mag. Lond. hort. cat. 



Early Damask, commonly called the Morocco plum. MiK 

 Early Black Damask. For. 

 Black Morocco, ^ 



Black Damask, > of various collections. 

 Early Damask, J 



This plum appears to be distinct from the Damas noir hatif 

 of Duhamel. I extract the following description from the Po^ 

 mological Magazine : 



" This is one of the very best of our early plums, and has 

 long been an inhabitant of our gardens. In the time of Lang- 

 ley it v/as evidently common and well known. It is not, how- 

 ever, so much cultivated now as formerly, for which reason a 

 figure of it is here given, in order that it may not be entirely 

 lost sight of. It is very hardy, bears well as a standard, and 

 ripens fully/a month before the Orleans, coming in at the be- 



