The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [ny].10.02. [table of characteristics of fruit and stone of plum varieties]. CUL-DAR46.2.A27-A28. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2022. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR46.2 contains Notes for Natural selection.

[A27]

Name	Fruit	Stone
Orleans Plums	spherical slightly oblate transverse diameter 1.4. red.	length .75 breadth .55x.35 one ~~side~~ edge with broad ridges. ovate
Washington	spherical considerably oblate 1.7. very didymous, reddish? unripe	oval. one edge much flattened & broad. length .87 breadth .6 x .44
Blue Gage	spherical slightly oblate 1.35 dark purple	ovate rather dark coloured edges furrowed medial ridges length .55 Breadth .43x .32
Harvests	slightly produced, 2 diameter equal 1.15. red & yellow flesh clings	like Black Margate not quite so pointed
Black margate	ob-ovate ie further end broadest: hardness 1.0 —length 1.2 dark purple flesh clings.	elliptic length .75 breadth .67 x .28: opposite edges nearly alike
Muscle	ovate transverse 1.2 length 1.3 reddish purple	poor stones, egg-shaped.
Denyyer Victoria	elongated, reddish hardness 1.5 length 1.8	very flat, unequal sided one edge ridged. length .96 Bred .67 x .3
Morocco	shape & size like orleans. dark purple	stones nearly like orleans
Gobich	reddish, dark & more truncated at 2 end stems Denyers vict. True 1.5 length 1.65	broadly ovate one edge crested length .7 breadth .7 x .35

Used under plums.

[A28]

Name	Fruit	Stone	Fert Oct 2 or later
Diamond	immense dark purple, not so much elongated as magnum. 2.1 x 1.7	sharp at one end 1.1 x .6 immense
Sharpe Emperor	orange-red, slightly elongated 1.7 x 1.55	stone not so much pointed as last. Thicker at thicker edge.	like Denyers Victoria stone but thicker
La Delicious	dirty purplish nearly same shape & size as last	rather smaller that last, browner, more rugged, with the same edge more produced [illeg] different from last	like Gobichs
Bulls eye local name	spherical, dark purple 1.2	smooth very slightly elongated; singular stone, no ridges, very small flattened. .6 x .45 x .35	very different from Orleans in smoothness & absence of ridges.
Win son	slightly elongated 1.25 x 1.2 one side flattened	elongated
Damson	slightly elongated ~~reddish~~
Stonyh [illeg] Damson	Longer & more elongated	very like last rather more elongated.

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