684 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



Alderton. See Victoria. 

 Aloise's Green Gage. See Green Gage. 

 Altesse Double. See Italian Prune. 

 Amber Primordian. See White Primordian. 

 American Damson. See Frost Plum. 



ANCIENT CITY. Fruit, large ; roundish, inclining to oval, with 

 a deep suture, which is higher on one side than the other, especially at 

 the crown. Skin, yellow, tinged with green when ripe, and mottled 

 with crimson specks on the side next the sun, and covered with thin 

 white bloom. Stalk, over half an inch long, pretty stout. Flesh, 

 yellow, veined with white, separating freely from the stone, except on 

 the ventral side, where it adheres ; it is rather firm and coarse, and not 

 richly flavoured. 



A second-rate plum, more adapted for cooking than for the dessert. 



ANGELINA BUKDETT. Fruit, above medium size ; round, and 

 marked with a suture, which is deepest towards the stalk. Skin, thick, 

 dark purple, thickly covered with brown dots and blue bloom. Stalk, 

 about an inch long. Flesh, yellowish, juicy, rich, and highly flavoured, 

 separating from the stone. 



An excellent dessert plum ; ripe in the beginning of September, and, 

 if allowed to hang till it shrivels, it becomes a perfect sweetmeat. The 

 tree is a good bearer, and hardy. Shoots, smooth. 



Anglaise Noire. See Orleans. 



APRICOT (Abricotee Blanche; Abricotee de Tours; Old Apricot ; 

 Yellow Apricot). Fruit, large, at least more so than the Green Gage, 

 to which it is similar in shape, being roundish and slightly elongated, 

 with a deep suture on one side of it. Skin, yellowish, with a tinge of 

 red next the sun, strewed with red dots, and covered with a white bloom. 

 Stalk, very short, about half an inch long. Flesh, yellow, melting, 

 and juicy, with a rich, pleasant flavour, and separating freely from the 

 stone. 



An excellent dessert plum, requiring a wall to have it in perfection, 

 and when well ripened little inferior to the Green Gage ; ripe in the 

 middle of September. The young shoots are covered with a whitish 

 down, and the tree is an excellent bearer. 



The Apricot Plum of the Horticultural Society's Catalogue is a very different and 

 inferior variety to this. It is the Prune d'Abricot of Bretonnerie. Abricot Ordinaire 

 of Knoop resembles this in colour, but is longer in shape, the flesh dry and 

 doughy, is a clingstone, and the young shoots are smooth. 



ARCHDUKE (Late Diamond). This is an oval purple plum, 

 smaller than Diamond, which ripens in the second week of October. It 

 was raised by Mr. Rivers. 



Askew's Golden Egg. See White Magnum Bonum. 



