apricots
white cherries, black cherries
white currents
black currents, red currents
melon
strawberries, raspberries
black diamond plums
greengages, Victoria plums
Mrs Beeton’s 1912 edition had colour and black and white plates; this selection of fruit is rather charming, but I can’t find out who the illustrator was. I hadn’t heard of black diamond plums, but apparently they are firm with a creamy coloured flesh and they are very sweet. Black diamond is now a trade-marked plum, or at least it is in the USA. It’s a little difficult to see which melon it is, I guess it’s something like a Galia.
Lois Elsden 