388 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



slender, short, with long intcmodcs, greenish-red changing to dull brownish-red, dull, 

 lightly pubescent throughout the season, covered with thin bloom, with few, incon- 

 spicuous, small lenticels; leaf-buds above medium in size, long, pointed, free. 



Leaves flattened or somewhat folded backward, oval, two and one-half inches 

 wide, four and one-quarter inches long, leathery; upper surface dark green, pubescent, 

 slightly rugose, with grooved midrib; lower surface medium green, thickly pubescent; 

 apex abruptly pointed or acute, base acute, margin doubly serrate, with few dark glands; 

 petiole five-eighths inch long, thick, reddish-purple, pubescent, glandless or with one 

 or two globose, yellowish-green glands variable in position. 



Blooming season short; flowers appearing after the leaves, one inch across, white, 

 with a yellowish tinge at the tip of the petals; borne on lateral buds and spurs, singly 

 or in pairs; pedicels one-half inch long, covered with thick pubescence, greenish; calyx- 

 tube green, campanulate, pubescent; calyx-lobes broad, obtuse, pubescent, glandular- 

 serrate, reflexed; petals roundish-oval, crenate or sometimes slightly notched, tapering 

 to short, broad claws; anthers yellow; filaments three-eighths inch long; pistil pubescent, 

 longer than the stamens; stigma oblique. 



Fruit late, season short; two inches by one and five-eighths inches in size, long- 

 oval, compressed, halves nearly equal; cavity of medium depth, narrow, abrupt; suture 

 shallow, often a line; apex roundish; color golden-yellow, covered with thick bloom; 

 dots numerous, small, white, inconspicuous; stem slender, one and one-quarter inches 

 long, pubescent, adhering well to the fruit, surrounded at the cavity by a fleshy collar; 

 skin thin, slightly astringent, separating readily; flesh golden-yellow, rather juicy, 

 moderately coarse, firm, of average sweetness, mild; good; stone semi-free or free, one 

 and one-quarter inches by three-quarters inch in size, oval, rather flat, acute at the 

 base and apex, with roughened and pitted surfaces; ventral suture wide, heavily 

 ridged, often distinctly winged; dorsal suture widely and deeply grooved. 



YELLOW GAGE 



Primus domestica 



I. Prince Treat. Hort. 25. 1828. 2. Prince Pom. Man. 2:108. 1832. 3. Downing Fr. Trees 

 Am. 287, 2S8 fig. 115. 1845. 4. Thomas Am. Fruit Cull. 329. 1S49. 5. Cole Am. Fr. Book 208 

 fig. 1849. 6. Horticidturisl 7:403. 1S52. 7. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 36, 55. 1S52. 8. Elliott Fr. 

 Book 414. 1854. 9. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 210. 1856. 10. Bridgeman Card. Ass't 3:126. 1857. 

 II. U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt. 190, PI. XIII. 186s. 12. Mas Pom. Gen. 2:163, %■ 82. 1873. 13. Barry 

 Fr. Garden 417. 1883. 14. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 443. 1889. 15. AVaugh Plum CuU. 126. 1901. 



American Wheat 10. American Yellow Gage oi some 3, 4, 8, 11, 14. American Yellow Gage 10. 

 AuserUsene Gelbe Reine-Claude 14. Harvest Gage 6, 8, 11, 14. Prince's Gage i. Prince's Gelbe 

 Reine-Claude 14. Prince's Yellow Gage 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11. Prince's Yellow Gage 5, 12, 13, 14, 

 15. Reine-Claude Jaune De Prince 12. White Gage oi some 3, 8, ii, 14. 



Yellow Gage belongs to the Reine Claude, or as it is so often called, 

 the Green Gage group of plums. There are now a great number of these 

 pltuns under cultivation in America, most of which have origmated in 

 this cotmtry and nearly all of which, as we have said before, are better 



