PLUMS. 691 



Coe's. See Coe's Golden Drop. 



COE'S GOLDEN DROP (Bury Seedling; Coe's; Coe*s Imperial; 

 fair's Golden Drop; Gulden Drop ; Golden Gage). Fruit, very large, 

 being generally about two inches and a half long, and two inches in 

 diameter ; of an oval shape, with a short neck at the stalk, marked by 

 a deep suture, extending the whole length of the fruit. Skin, pale 

 yellow, mottled with a number of dark red spots. Stalk, about an inch 

 long, stout, and attached without depression. Flesh, yellowish red, 

 sugary, and delicious, adhering closely to the stone. 



One of the best dessert plums, fit either for the dessert or preserving ; 

 ripe in the end of September. The tree is healthy, vigorous, and an 

 abundant bearer, and the young shoots are smooth. In the " Guide 

 to the Orchard," Lindley says that by hanging the fruit in a dry, airy 

 place, or wrapping it in soft paper and keeping it dry, it will last a 

 considerable time, and he has eaten it, when kept in this way, twelve 

 months after it had been gathered. 



It was raised about the end of the last century by one Jervaise Coe, a market 

 gardener at Bury St. Edmunds, in Suffolk, and, as he supposed, was produced from 

 the stone of a Green Gage impregnated by the White Magnum Bonum, these two 

 varieties having grown side by side in his garden. 



Coe's Imperial. See Coes Golden Drop. 



COE'S LATE RED (St. Martin; St. Martin Rouge). Fruit, 

 medium sized ; round, marked on one side with a deep suture. Skin, 

 bright purple, covered with a thin blue bloom. Stalk, three-quarters 

 of an inch long, not depressed. Fruit, yellowish, firm and juicy, with 

 a sweet and sprightly flavour, and separating from the stone. 



As a late plum, ripening in the end of October, and hanging for a 

 month or six weeks later, this is a valuable variety. Shoots, downy. 



COLUMBIA (Columbia Gage). Fruit, very large, being two inches 

 or more in diameter ; almost perfectly round. Skin, deep reddish 

 purple, thickly covered with blue bloom, and dotted with yellowish 

 dots. Stalk, an inch long, inserted in a small narrow cavity. Flesh, 

 orange, with a rich, sugary, and delicious flavour, separating from the 

 stone. 



A valuable dessert plum of the first quality ; ripe the beginning and 

 middle of September. The young shoots are downy. The tree is 

 vigorous, and an excellent bearer. The fruit is considerably larger 

 than the Washington. 



This is an American variety, and was raised from the Green Gage by Mr. L. 

 W. Lawrence, of Hudson, in the State of New York. 



Columbia Gage. See Columbia. 

 Cooper's Blue Gage. See Early Blue. 



COOPER'S LARGE (Cooper's Large American; Cooper's Large 

 Red ; La Delicieuse ; Lady Lucy). Fruit, above medium size ; oval, 



