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smooth; fruit very large, roundish, oval; suture obscure, running half round; 

 skin deep, golden yellow, slightly marbled with greenish yellow; stalk long, set 

 in a shallow cavity, the whole of that end being flattened; flesh coarse, pale 

 yellow, moderately juicy, sweet and good, but not of high flavor; separates 

 freely from the stone. Good. September. (Downing.) 



Golden Beauty. — Medium, round ovate, pointed at apex, deep clear yel- 

 low ; skin th ick ; flesh amber, firm, sweet ; semicling. Late bloomer, and in ripen- 

 ing. Tree hardy, vigorous, productive. Good. Texas. (Thomas.) 



Green Gage* — This plum has thirty-six synonyms. The Green Gage is 

 everywhere highly esteemed. In France it is generally known as the Reine 

 Claude, having, it is said, been introduced into that country by Queen Claude, 

 wife of Francis I. During the last [eighteenth] century an English family by 

 the name of Gage obtained a number of fruit-trees among the monks of Chart- 

 reuse, near Paris. Among them was a tree of this plum, which, having lost its 

 name, was called by the gardener the Green Gage. It is pronounced by Lindley 

 the best plum in England. The Green Gage is a very short, slow-growing tree, 

 of spreading and rather dwarfish habit. It is an abundant and pretty regular 

 bearer, though the fruit is liable to crack upon the tree in wet weather. 

 Branches smooth. Buds with large shoulders. Fruit round, rather small, sel- 

 dom of medium size. Suture faintly marked, but extending from the stalk to 

 the apex. Skin green, or yellowish green at full maturity, when it is often a 

 little dotted or marbled with red. Stalks half to three-fourths inch long, slender, 

 very slightly inserted. Flesh pale green, exceedingly melting and juicy, and 

 usually separates freely from the stone. Flavor at once sprightly and very 

 luscious. Best. Ripe about the middle of August. There are several seedling 

 varieties of this plum in various parts of this country, but none superior or 

 scarcely equal to the old. (Downing.) 



Hale (Burbank No. 3, Prolific). — Medium, globular; light orange red; flesh 

 yellow, firm, spicy, sweet; cling. Very late. (Thomas.) 



Heikes. — Much like Late Blood, but rather more flattened on the ends, or 

 oblate, mostly darker in color, the flesh acid. Little known. Named for W. F, 

 Heikes, of the Huntsville Nurseries, Huntsville, Ala. 



Indiana Red. — Large, round; cling. Indiana Horticulture. (Thomas.) 



KeLsey. — Very large, two to three inches in diameter, heart-shaped, lop- 

 sided, distinct suture; yellow, overlaid bright-red purple, dotted; flesh light 

 yellow, firm, rich, free, usually hollow. Not hardy North. A good canning 

 fruit. (Thomas.) 



Kerr (Hattonkin No. 2). — Medium, conical, sutured; bright yellow ; flesh 

 yellow, juicy, subacid; cling. Prolific. Probably not hardy North. (Thomas.) 



Klondike. — Earliest of all; ripe and gone by August 1. Golden yellow ; 

 freestone. Originated in Iowa by cross-pollination. Introduced, 1897, by W. F. 

 Heikes, Huntsville, Ala. Wragg, Iowa. 



Le Due. — Medium, round, flattened; orange, spotted red; skin thin; flesh 

 soft, sweet; semicling. Mid-season. Minnesota. (Thomas.) 



Lombard (Bleecker's Scarlet, Peekman's Scarlet, Montgomery Prune). — 

 Tree very vigorous, hardy; has strikingly crimpled leaves, bright, purple, glossy 

 shoots, very productive; popular. It was called the Lombard plum by the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society in compliment to Mr. Lombard, of Springfield, 

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