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and will abide good for fix vveekes at the lcaft after it is gathered , and after all other 
plums are fpenr. 
The Cherry plum remembred before, fpeaking of the Mufcadine plum, is a very 
good plum, bur fmall. 
The Amber plumis a round plum, as yellow on the outfidealraoft as yellow waxe 
of a fowre vnplcafant tafte that which I tailed, but I thinkc it was not the right ; for I 
haue fecne and tafted another of the fame bignelfe, of a paler colour, farre better relli- 
fhed, and a firmer fubftance, comming cleanefrom the ftone like an A pricocke. 
The Apricocke plum is a good plum when it is in its perfection, but that is feldomc- 
for it doth moll vfually cracke, thereby diminilhing muchofitsgoodnefle, andbe- 
fidcs yceldethgumme at the crackes. 
The Eafon plum is a little red plum, but very good in tafte;. 
The Violet plum is a fmall and long blackifh blewplum, ripe about Bartholmcw 
tide, a very good dry eating fruit. 
The Grape plum is the Flulhing Bulleis before remembred 
The Dennie plum is called alfo the Chcfton,orthe Friars plum before remembred. 
The Damaske Violet plum, or Queen mother plum fpoken of before. 
The blackc Damafcene plum is a very good dry plum , and of a darkeblew colour 
when it is ripe. 
The white Damfon is nothing fo well rellifhedas theother. 
ThegreatDatufonor Damaske plum is greater then the ordinary Damfon and 
fweeter in tafte. 
The blew Damfon well knowne, a good fruit. 
The Coferers plum is flat, like vnto a Pcare plum , it is early ripe and blacke of a 
very good rellifh. 
The Margate plum the worft of an hundred. 
. The green Oyfterly plum is a reafonable great plum,of a whitilh green colour when 
it is ripe, of a moift and fwcete tafte, reafonable good. 
The red Mirobalane plum groweth to be a great tree quickly, fpreading very thicke 
and farre, very like the blacke Thorne or Sloe bufh : the fruit is red, earlier ripe and 
of a better tafte then the white. 
The white Mirobalane plum is in moft things like the former red, but the fruit is of 
a whitilh yellow colour, and very pleafant, efpecially if it be not ouer ripe : both thefc 
had need to be plalhed againft a wall, or elfe they will hardly beare ripe fruit. 
The Oliue plum is very like a greene Oliue, both for colour and big neflc,a’nd grow-’ 
cth lowe on a fmall bufhing tree , and ripeneth late , but is the beft of all the forts of 
greene plums. 
The white diapred plum of Malta, fcarce knowne to any in our Land but lohn Tra- 
defcanre, is a very good plum, and ftriped all ouer like diaper, and thereby fo called. 
The blacke diapred plum is like the Damafcene plum, being blacke with fpots as 
fmallaspinspointsvponitjofaverygoodrellilh. r * 
The Peake plum is a long whitilh plum, and very good. 
The Pilhamin or Virginia plum is called a plum, but vtterly differeth from all forts 
of plums, the defeription whereof may truelyenforraeyou, as it is fetdowneinthe 
tenth Chaptergoing before, whereunto I referre you. 
The Vfe of Plums. 
The great Damaske or Damfon Plummes are dryed in France in great 
quantities, and brought ouer vnto vs in Hogs-heads, and other great vef- 
fds, and are thofe Prunes that are vfually fold at the Grocers, vnderrhc 
name of Damaske Prunes : the blacke Bulleis alfo are thofe (being dryed in 
the fame manner) that they call French Prunes, and by their tartneife are 
thought to binde, as the other, being fweet, to loofen the body. 
The Bruneola Plumme, by reafon of his pleafant tartnefle, is much ac- 
counted of, and being dryed, the ftones taken from them, are brought ouer 
to vs in fmall boxes, and fold deereatthe Comfitmakers, where they very 
often accompany all other forts of banquetting ftuffes. 
Some 
