720 THE ^ FRUIT MANUAL. 



An excellent dessert plum ; ripe in September. The young shoots 

 are smooth. The tree is a good Bearer. 



The Queen Mother of Parkinson and Kay is made synonymous with the Cherry 

 Plum, which the figure of Parkinson decidedly confirms, being cordate. That of 

 Rea is, I think, most likely to be the variety above described, as he says it is a 

 fine-tasted round red plum. Langley is the first whose description and figure 

 identify the variety now under notice. Hitt says there are two sorts of Queen 

 Mother, the one pale red and the other bright yellow, and both thinly powdered. 



QUETSCHE (Early Russian ; German Prune ; German Quetsche ; 

 Leipzig; Prune d'Allemagne ; Sweet Prune; Turkish Quetsche; 

 Zwetsche). Fruit, medium sized; oval, narrowing towards the stalk, 

 flattened on one side, where it is marked with a distinct suture. Skin, 

 dark purple, dotted with grey dots and veins of russet, and covered 

 with blue bloom. Stalk, an inch long. Flesh, firm, juicy, sweet, and 

 brisk, separating from the stone. 



A culinary plum ; ripe in the end of September. Shoots, smooth. 



Quetsche d'ltalie. See Italian Prune. 



REAGLES'S GAGE. Fruit, an inch and three-quarters in diameter ; 

 quite round, and with a faint suture. Skin, bright grass-green, mottled 

 with broken green streaks of a darker colour, and with scarcely any 

 bloom. Stalk, three-quarters of an inch long, very slender, inserted 

 in a wide and rather deep cavity. Flesh, green, briskly acid, and 

 adhering to the stone. 



An American plum, ripe in the middle and end of September, said 

 to be very good in the United States, where it is also said to be a free- 

 stone ; but from the fact of its being of inferior flavour and a cling- 

 stone with us, it is evident that our climate is not suitable to it. It 

 was raised by Mr. C. Reagles, of Schenectady, New York, from seed of 

 Washington. Shoots, smooth. 



RED APRICOT (Abricot Rouge; Alricotee Rouge}. Fruit, medium 

 size, two inches in diameter ; round, rather flattened at the apex, and 

 with a very shallow suture. Skin, yellowish in the shade, mottled and 

 streaked with thin red ; and on the side exposed to the sun it is entirely 

 covered with thin pale red, with mottles of the yellow ground colour 

 shining through. Stalk, an inch long, rather stout, inserted in a small 

 cavity. Flesh, yellow, with thin hair-like white veins, orange sweet, 

 rather dry, pasty, and without much flavour ; separating freely from 

 the stone. 



An inferior dessert plum, but useful for cooking ; ripe in the be- 

 ginning of September. The tree is luxuriant and the young shoots 

 are smooth. 



Red Damask. See Orleans. 



Red Diaper. See Diapr'ee Rouge. 



Red Fotheringham. See Fotheringham. 



