214 Pomological Notices. 



Imperiale de Milan. — Fruit large, oval, and of a deep pur- 

 ple ; ripe October 12th ; juicy, sugary, and excellent. 



Mamelonne. — This is a plum raised by M. Sageret, a gar- 

 dener, near Paris ; it is almost grotesque in its shape; instead 

 of being depressed at the stalk, as most round plums are, it 

 has a small, nipple-like protuberance, and some of its fruit are 

 irregularly knobbed ; it is of the green gage family, and much 

 like it in flavor, parting freely from the stone, and ripening 

 ten or twelve days before it : color green, densely spotted with 

 red. 



Reine Claude de Bavay. — " I saw the parent tree, a standard 

 of this very fine plum, in the garden of the late Major Espe- 

 ren, at Malines, towards the end of last August. It is appa- 

 rently about fifteen years old ; it was covered with fine fruit ; 

 they were, indeed, more numerous than the leaves. 1 ate of 

 fruit produced here on a dwarf standard, preserved under 

 muslin, October 12th, perfectly fresh and unshrivelled ; shape, 

 roundish oval ; color, greenish yellow, spotted with red; flesh, 

 rather firmer than that of Jefferson, but juicy, sugary, rich, 

 and excellent ; size, between the green gage and Washington ; 

 indeed, it much resembles the latter in shape ; it has roundish 

 shining leaves, and smooth shoots, very much resembling the 

 Washington, only that the former are smaller, and the latter 

 more slender, and is doubtless a hybrid between that and the 

 green gage. To this plum hangs a not very agreeable tale. 

 In 1843, I received it from France, and, in the autumn of 

 1845, having a report, from a friend on the Continent, of its 

 great excellence, I advertised plants of it for sale. Not hav- 

 ing enough, I bought 100 from a most honorable nurseryman 

 in France. When they arrived, I felt some doubts, owing to 

 their having prominent, pointed buds. Before I sold any, I 

 wrote to him expressing my doubts. In reply, I received an 

 invoice from a nurseryman at Ghent, dated 1843, in which 

 some plants were charged to him, at a high price, as Reine 

 Claude de Bavay. As this person at Ghent had stated that 

 he alone had received this plum from Major Esperen, my scru- 

 ples were quieted; but, when some plants I had left unsold 

 came into leaf, in the spring of 1846, I found they were Coe's 

 Golden Drop. In the autumn of 1846, feeling very anxious that 

 my friends should have the true sort, and then, beginning to 



