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LXXII. Account and Description of Wilmot's New Early 

 Orleans Plum. In a Letter to the Secretary. By William 

 Hooker, Esq. F. H. S. 



Read August 17th, 1819. 



Dear Sir, 



Among the various specimens of garden produce which our 

 indefatigable Member, Mr. John Wilmot, has this season 

 most liberally laid on the table of the Horticultural Society, 

 the attention of many of the Members has been particularly 

 directed to a new variety of Plum, which appears, I think, 

 to possess qualities, which render its possession desirable 

 to all cultivators. I am, therefore, induced to trouble the 

 Society with the following notice and description of it, from 

 information obtained of Mr. Wilmot, who has named it 

 Wilmot's New Early Orleans.* 



The original tree was raised by Mr. Wilmot in his 

 garden at Isleworth, about ten years since, and in its habit it 

 nearly resembles the old Orleans, but the shoots are shorter 

 from point to point, and the buds more prominent ; the 

 leaves are somewhat longer and of a rather deeper green ; 

 the flowers expand at a later period than those of most other 

 Plums, notwithstanding its fruit ripens three weeks before 

 that of the Orleans, and as early as the Precoce de Tours, 

 and the Morocco. 



* A short notice of this Plum, under the name of Wilmot's Orleans Plum, 

 will be found at page 362 of this volume. 



