_Bacon's Essays_: _Bullaces_ (Vol. viii., pp. 167. 223.).--"Bullace" (I
never heard Bacon's plural used) are known in Kent as small white tartish
plums, which do not come to perfection without the help of a frost, and
so are eaten when their fellows are no more found. They have only been
cultivated of late years, I believe, but how long I cannot tell.