THE MIMMS PLUM.
Mimms Plum. Hort. Transactions, vol. iv. p. 208. Fruit
Catalogue, p . 97.
This variety is said to have been raised many
years since from a stone of the Blue Perdrigon
Plum in the Garden of Henry Browne, Esq. a t
North Mimms Place ' in Hertfordshire, and was
exhibited a t a meeting of the Horticultural Society
in 1819, by Mr. William Morgan, a t that time
Gardener to Mr. Browne.
The original tree is trained to a wall with an
eastern aspect, where it bears regularly and abundantly.
The fruit is large and handsome, of a rich
reddish purple colour, in size and figure approaching
the Magnum Bonum, b u t more spherical. It is a
pleasant dessert plum, but its great excellence is as
a pie-fruit; it melts perfectly when baked, and
possesses th a t ju s t proportion of acidity and sweetness
which is so essential to the confectioner, and
so rarely to be found. The tree succeeds well as
an open standard.
There is a variety cultivated near Manchester,
under the name of the Imperial Diadem Plum,
th a t apparently is in no respect different from
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