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from a family of the name of Gage who the best plum known in England. The 

 obtained it in France, where it is popu- size is below medium. Skin green, 

 lariy termed the Reine Claude, (or inclining to yellow when fully ripe, and 

 Queen Claude,) after the wife of Francis occasionally marbled with red. Ripe 

 I. Those qualified to give an opinion j middle of August, 

 on the subject, have declared it to be 



Fig. 135 



.Teffebson. (Fig. 135.) This escel- 

 Iciit variety is the product of the late 

 Judge Buel of Albany, so long and so 

 favourably associated with the " Culti- 

 vator." Mr. Downing, whose opinion 

 lias great weight with us, says, if he 

 ■were asked which he thought' the most 

 desirable and the most beautiful of all 

 dessert plums, he should undoubtedly 

 give the name of this new variety. He 

 thinks it, when fully ripe, nearly if not 

 quite equal in flavour to the Green Gage 

 — '-it is as large as the Washington, 

 more richly and deeply coloured, being 

 dark yellow, uniformly and handsomely 

 marked with a fine ruddy cheek. It is 

 about ten days or a fortnight later than 

 the Washington, ripening the last of Au- 

 gust, when it has the rare quality of hang- 

 ing long on the tree, gradually improv- 

 ing in flavour." — "Fruits of America.'- 



Magnum Bonum, (Yellow Egg.) (Fig. 



1 36.) These are the two popular names 

 for a variety very generally cultivated 

 in France and England, and known to 

 a considerable extent in the gardens of 

 our sea-board. It is an attractive variety, 

 and though by no means equal in point 

 of quality to many less prepossessing, 

 is nevertheless in high repute. Skin 

 yellow. Flesh closely united to the 

 stone, sub-acid until dead ripe, when 

 the flavour is highest. It is an excel- 

 lent preserving plum — its large size 

 adding to its merit in that particular. 



Propagation by Seed. — This mode is 

 adopted for raising stocks and new 

 varieties. For the latter purpose cross- 

 impregnation has been successively 

 pursued, attention being paid to the 

 suggestions ofl^ered under the title Hy- 

 bridizing. Sow in October, in rich 

 light loam, in drills twelve inches apart 

 and two inches deep, when two-year 



