PLUMS. 703 



GRAF GUSTAVE VON EGGER. Fruit, about medium size ; oval, 

 with a neck, and marked with a faint suture. Skin, deep yellow, covered 

 with a thin bloom. Stalk, an inch long, slender, inserted quite on the 

 apex of the fruit without depression. Flesh, yellow, with white veins, 

 tender, juicy, sweet, and richly flavoured, adhering to the stone. 



An excellent dessert plum, like a small specimen of Coe's Golden 

 Drop ; ripe in the middle of September. Shoots, downy. 



GRAND DUKE. Fruit, oval, with a short neck, and a well-defined 

 suture, which is deep at the stalk and frequently also at the apex, where 

 it is higher on one side than on the other. Skin, dark, almost a 

 blackish purple, but reddish where shaded, the whole covered with 

 blue bloom. Stalk, an inch to an inch and a quarter long, very 

 slender, and inserted in a round narrow cavity. Flesh, greenish 

 yellow, adhering closely to the stone, very brisk, with a sweet and rich 

 flavour when fully ripe. Stone, with a very shallow and narrow 

 channel like a thread. 



A seedling raised by Mr. Rivers from Autumn Compote ; an excellent 

 cooking plum. The tree is a luxuriant grower and abundant bearer, 

 and well adapted for orchard culture. Shoots, downy. 



Great Damask. See Green Gage. 



GREEN GAGE (Abricot Vert; Aloise's Green Gage; Bradford 

 Green Gage; Bruynon Green Gage ; Damas Vert ; Dauphine ; Goring's 

 Golden Gage; Great Green Damask; Grosse Heine ; Ida Green Gage ; 

 Isleworth Green Gage; Mirabelle Vert Double; Queen Claudia; Heine 

 Claude; Heine Claude Grosse; Eensselaar Gage; Schuyler Gage; 

 SucrinVert; Trompe Garqon ; Trompe Valet; Verdacia ; Verdochio ; 

 Vert Bonne; Vert Tiquetee ; Wilmot's Green Gage}. Fruit, medium 

 sized ; round, and a little flattened at both ends ; dimpled at the apex, 

 and marked on one side by a shallow suture, which extends from the 

 stalk to the apex. Skin, tender, yellowish green, but when fully 

 ripe becoming of a deeper yellow, clouded with green, marked with 

 crimson spots, and covered with thin ashy-grey bloom. Stalk, half an 

 inch to three-quarters long, inserted in a small cavity. Flesh, greenish 

 yellow, tender, melting, and very juicy, with a rich, sugary, and most 

 delicious flavour. It separates freely from the stone. 



One of the richest flavoured of all the plums ; ripe in the middle 

 and end of August. The tree is a vigorous grower, hardy, and an 

 excellent bearer, and the young shoots are smooth. It may be grown 

 either as a standard, espalier, or trained against a wall ; but it is found 

 that the richest flavoured fruit is from a standard, though not so large 

 as from a wall. When there is an abundant crop the trees should be 

 gone over about the month of June, and thinned ; for if the whole is 

 allowed to be ripened, the fruit will be smaller and insipid, and want- 

 ing that richness which is peculiar only to this variety. It is said to 

 be greatly improved by being grafted on the Apricot. 



