. An encyclopædia of gardening; . nto Italy. 4551. Use. The best varieties are esteemed a delicious dessert fruit; and the othersare used in pies, tarts, conserves, and sweetmeats. A wholesome wine is also occasionallymade from them, with or without other fruits and ingredients. Plums, ProfessorMartyn observes, when sufficiently ripe, and taken in moderate quantity, are not un-wholesome ; but in an immature state, they are more liable to produce colicky pains,diarrhoea, or cholera, than any other fruit of this class. Considered medicinally, they areemollient, cooling, and laxative, especially
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . nto Italy. 4551. Use. The best varieties are esteemed a delicious dessert fruit; and the othersare used in pies, tarts, conserves, and sweetmeats. A wholesome wine is also occasionallymade from them, with or without other fruits and ingredients. Plums, ProfessorMartyn observes, when sufficiently ripe, and taken in moderate quantity, are not un-wholesome ; but in an immature state, they are more liable to produce colicky pains,diarrhoea, or cholera, than any other fruit of this class. Considered medicinally, they areemollient, cooling, and laxative, especially the French prunes, which are peculiarly usefulin costive habits. The wood of the plum is used in turnery, cabinet work, and in makingmusical instruments. 4552. Varieties, Tusser enumerates ten ; Parkinson, sixty; Miller, only thirty the Luxemburg catalogue are sixty-eight; nearly a hundred names are to be foundin the catalogues of our nurserymen, of which those in the following table are deemedthe best. Book I. PLUM. 723. tig^?313 tiiibi^d SjO. T3 t:) T3 ti bn ti;^ ^ c a c c 01 Sj iTaa g-S* ^c , cnccSS . SS pqpq O t 1I . 1 I ills O f§ 1^ IIIooo ?3 esse b|ss iss
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