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grown in my orchard. Trees have been grafted over. In size, color and 

 quality an absolute failure. 



Oswego. — Origin, Oswego, N. Y., and said to be a seedling, but so 

 strongly resembling Pond's Seedling, or Fonthill, that I am inclined to 

 regard them as identical. 



Peter's Yellow Gage (Fig. 45.). — Origin imknown. Fruit medium to 

 large ; nearly globular ; pale yellow, sometimes little shaded red in the sun ; 

 flesh }-ellowish, very rich and juicy ; ripening about middle of August. 

 Tree hardy in wood and bud, an excellent variety in a family collection. 

 An old plum of great excellence. [Fruit generally globular-oblong, with a 

 deep suture and light bloom ; color of Reine Claude.— I,. H. B.] 



45. — Peter's Yellow Gage. 



* Pond. —{Y oryx's Seedling, Hungarian Prune.).— Fruit oval ; bright red ; 

 enormously large when well matured. Productive and tree very hardy ; 

 much inclined to rot before mature and rather inferior in quality. It can- 

 not be denominated a favorite orchard sort in western New York. 



* Prince Englebert. — Fruit large ; oval ; deep purple, with a dense bloom ; 

 rich and excellent in quality ; free-stone ; profuse bearer. The tree is 

 clothed with a perfect foliage and is ver}^ hardy. But little known, and at 

 least deserving a place in every private collection. Its period of ripening 

 about the last of August, is hardly in its favor as a very desirable market 

 sort. Said to have originated in Belgium. 



* Prince of Wales.— VrmX. round ; reddish purple ; mediun size ; ripening 

 about Sept. ist, and has much to commend it to general favor. Were it a 



