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PLUMS. 



NECTARINE PLUM. Pom. Mag. 



Caledonia. Goliath, of some collections. 

 Prune Piche. Lond. Hort. cat. No. 190 syn. 



HowelVs large. 



The following details relative to this plum I copy from the 

 Pomological Magazine : 



" Two plums, which it is presumed will now be rendered 

 very distinct, have hitherto been confused under the names 

 of Nectarine plum, Goliath, and Caledonian. They are 

 ranged as synonymous in Hooker's Pomona Londinensis, 

 in Forsyth, seventh edition, and in the London Horticultural 

 Society's Catalogue. The Nectarine plum will however be 

 found superior to the other, which is more generally cultivated 

 under the name of Goliath. The appearance of the two sorts 

 of fruit is considerably alike, but in order to distinguish them 

 very readily, it will be only necessary to observe that the 

 shoots of this sort are glabrous, and those of the other very 

 pubescent. This smoothness and pubescence extends also to 

 the fruit stalks of the respective sorts, so that they may be 

 known by them independent of the shoots. This is a good 

 bearer and ripens in July, being considerably earlier than the 

 Goliath. 



" The wood is strong, shoots glabrous, brownish violet 

 where exposed to the sun ; leaves large, ovate, flat, or some- 

 what convex, with rounded serratures, and having large 

 glands at the base ; petioles strong, scarcely an inch in length 

 on the young shoots ; flowers large ; petals roundish, much 

 imbricated ; fruit very large, like a nectarine in shape and 

 size ; footstalk smooth, about half an inch in length, and of 

 moderate thickness ; skin purple, covered with a fine azure 

 bloom ; flesh dull greenish yellow, somewhat adhering to the 

 stone, but less so than in the Goliath, compared with which it 

 is much finer and richer, being decidedly the best plum yet 

 known of its size : stone middle-sized, oval, compressed." 



