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PLUMS. 



settled here at the time of the revocation of the edict of 

 Nantz. It is much disseminated throughout this section of 

 country. The fruit is of good size, and of an oval form ; its 

 skin is of a black colour ; the flesh sweet, and of very pleasant 

 flavour, separating freely from the stone. It is much esteemed, 

 both for the table and for preserves. The fruit ripens in 

 August. The name here adopted is that by which it is gene- 

 rally known ; its original title I am unacquainted with. 



SMALL WHITE DAMSON. Pr. cat. 



Petit Damas hlanc. Duh. 



Damas hlanc petit. Lond. Hort. cat. 



This fruit is thirteen lines in length, and the same in 

 diameter ; the skin is of a yellowish white hue, with a partial 

 bloom, and very slightly tinged with red on the side next the 

 sun ; the flesh is of the same colour as the skin, melting, of a 

 bland, sweet, and rather rich flavour ; it does not adhere to 

 the stone, which is seven lines long and six broad, and has a 

 kind of projecting ridge upon each side of it extending from 

 the base to the point. This plum ripens at the end of August 

 or the beginning of September. 



LARGE WHITE DAMSON. Pr. cat. 



Large white Damask. Pr. cat., 26th ed, 



Gros Damas hlanc. Duh. 



Damas hlanc gros. Lond. Hort. cat. 



This plum has great aflinity to the preceding one ; it is 

 only a little larger and longer. In favourable situations it 

 attains to fifteen or sixteen lines in length, and fourteen in 

 diameter ; the skin and flesh are also nearly of the same colour 

 as the one before described, and its flavour does not diflfer, 

 except that the present one seems rather sweeter. This fruit 

 attains to maturity a few days the soonest. 



LATE WHITE DAMSON. Pr. cat. . 



White Damascene. Coxe. 



White Damson. Late Cluster. Winter Damson. 

 White Winter Damson. Frost plum. 



This tree is of very strong and vigorous growth, and 



