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sized round-oval ; cavity broad shallow ; stem stout ; suture a line ; colour golden yellow, 

 a little clouded, bloom white, heavy ; flesh deep yellow, stone free ; flavour rich, sugary, 

 quality very good. Ripens here soon after the iirst of September. 



Bryanston's Gage. 



Two trees of this variety were planted in 1897, have made strong growth and have 

 fruited this season. The fruit is of medium size, roundish ; colour dull greenish yellow, 

 with a darker shading in the sun ; flesh yellow clinging to stone. The quality is good. 

 It is a late plum about the season of Reine Claude de Bavay, and docs not appear sup- 

 erior in any way. 



Tlie Dame Aubert group. — The characters of this group are summarized as follows : — 

 * Large growing trees, with large foliage ; fruit very large oval, with more or less of a 

 neck; yellow greenish yellow, or purplish; flesh yellow. This includes our largest 

 plums, perhaps excepting one or two hybrids.' In this group are Coe's Golden Drop, 

 Grand Duke and Yellow Egg or Magnum Bonum. 



Coe's Golden Drop. 



Two trees of this variety were planted in 1891. These have not made very good 

 growth, but have fruited well since 1898. The fruit is very large, oval, with a short 

 ueck, the two halves unequal ; suture deep ; cavity very shallow and abrupt ; stem stout, 

 medium in length ; apex somewhat depressed ; colour golden yellow, dots very many, yel- 

 low ; bloom yellow ; flesh firm adhering partly to stone ; quality good. Ripens here to- 

 wards the last of September. This is a good commercial variety and should prove valu- 

 able in this province. It is sometimes called the Silver Prune. 



The Prune group. — The group characters which may be assigned to the prunes are 

 as follows : — ' Ti'ees and foliage, various ; fruit mostly medium to large, always oval or 

 ellipsoid, usually with one side of the oval straighter than the other ; compressed ; colour, 

 olue or purple ; flesh mostly greenish yellow, rather firm ; stone usually free in a large 

 cavity.' The varieties belonging to this group and generally known in this province are 

 Fellenburg or Italian Prune, German Prune and Czar. 



Fellenberg. 



Two trees of this variety were plant^id in 1895. They have made the most vigorous 

 growth of any plum trees in the orchard, and have borne a large crop of fruit the past 

 two seasons. The tree has a spreading but compact habit. The fruit is borne evenly 

 over the whole tree, which can carry a large crop. To look at the tree, only a small 

 crop would be expected, but its even distribution of large specimens makes this one of the 

 best yielding plums we have. This plum never sets so much fruit as to make thinning 

 /lecessary. It is a variety well known throughout America and 80 per cent of the 

 prunes grown on the Pacinc coast are said to be of this sort. The fruit is harge, ellip- 

 tical, straighter on one side and longer on the other, ciivity very shallow ; stem n:>ariy 

 as long as the fruit ; suture shallow ; colour dark blue ; dots not many, dull yellow ; bl->om 

 blue; skin thin ; flesh greenish yellow ; stone medium sized, and free from the flesh; 

 quality good to extra. Ripens here about the first of October. This is considered an 

 exceptionally good market plum on account of its lateness and good shipping qualities. 



