The Don Alteza is also a very good plum.
The Muscadine plum, some call the Queene mother plumme, and some the Cherry plum, is a faire red plum, of a reasonable bignesse, and ripe about Bartholmew tide.
| 1 | Prunum Imperiale. The Imperiall Plum. |
| 2 | Prunum Turcicum. The Turkey Plum. |
| 3 | Prunum præcox rubrum. The red Primordian Plum. |
| 4 | Prunum Mytellinum. The Mussell Plum. |
| 5 | Prunum Ambariuum. The Amber Plum. |
| 6 | Prunum Regineum. The Queen mother Plum. |
| 7 | Prunum viride. The green Oysterly Plum. |
| 8 | Prunum Arantiacum. The Orenge Plum. |
| 9 | Prunum Myristicum. The Nutmeg Plum. |
| 10 | Prunum Siliquosum. The Pescod Plum. |
| 11 | Prunum Gandauense. The Gaunt Plum. |
| 12 | Prunum Dactylites. The Date Plum. |
| 13 | Prunum Pyrinum præcox. The early Peare Plum. |
The Christian plum, called also the Nutmeg plum; the tree groweth very shrubby, and will abide good for six weekes at the least after it is gathered, and after all other plums are spent.
The Cherry plum remembred before, speaking of the Muscadine plum, is a very good plum, but small.
The Amber plum is a round plum, as yellow on the outside almost as yellow waxe, of a sowre vnpleasant taste that which I tasted, but I thinke it was not the right; for I haue seene and tasted another of the same bignesse, of a paler colour, farre better rellished, and a firmer substance, comming cleane from the stone like an Apricocke.
The Apricocke plum is a good plum when it is in its perfection, but that is seldome; for it doth most vsually cracke, thereby diminishing much of its goodnesse, and besides yeeldeth gumme at the crackes.
The Eason plum is a little red plum, but very good in taste.
The Violet plum is a small and long blackish blew plum, ripe about Bartholmew tide, a very good dry eating fruit.