728 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



TOPAZ (Outline's Topaz). Fruit, medium sized; oval, narrowing 

 at the stalk, and marked with a distinct suture. Skin, fine clear yellow 

 covered with thin bloom. Stalk, an inch long, inserted in a small 

 cavity. Flesh, yellow, juicy, sweet, and richly flavoured, adhering to 

 the stone. Shoots, smooth. 



A dessert plum ; ripening in the middle and end of September, and 

 hanging till it shrivels. 



TRANSPARENT GAGE (Eeine Claude Diaphane). Fruit, larger 

 than the Green Gage ; round, and very much flattened, marked with a 

 shallow suture. Skin, thin, and so transparent as to show the texture 

 of the flesh, and also the stone, when the fruit is held up between the 

 eye and the light; greenish yellow, dotted and marbled with red. 

 Stalk, half an inch long, thin, and inserted in a rather deep cavity. 

 Flesh, greenish yellow, rather firm and transparent, very juicy, and 

 with a rich honied sweetness, separating from the stone. 



A most delicious dessert plum ; ripe in the beginning of September. 

 Young shoots, smooth. 



Trompe Garc,on. See Green Gage. 

 Trompe Yalet. See Green Gage. 

 Turkish Quetsche. See Quetsche. 



VAN MONS' BED (Eeine Claude Eouge Van Mom). Fruit, very 

 large ; roundish oval. Skin, reddish purple, dotted with yellow russet 

 dots, and covered with very thick bluish white bloom. Stalk, thick, 

 about an inch long, inserted in a deep cavity. Flesh, firm and crisp, 

 juicy, sugary, and deliciously flavoured, and separating from the 

 stone. 



One of the finest dessert plums ; ripe in the end of August and 

 beginning of September. Shoots, downy. 



Yerdacia. See Green Gage. 

 Verdochio. See Green Gage. 

 Verte Bonne. See Green Gage. 

 Verte Tiquetee. See Green Gage. 



VICTORIA (Alderton; Denyers Victoria; Sharp's Emperor). 

 Fruit, large ; roundish oval, marked with a shallow suture. Skin, 

 bright red on the side next the sun, but pale red on the shaded side, 

 and covered with thin bloom. Stalk, three-quarters of an inch long, 

 stout. Flesh, yellow, very juicy, sweet, and pleasantly flavoured, 

 separating from the stone. 



A culinary plum ; ripe in the beginning and middle of September. 

 The tree is an immense bearer, and ought to find a place in every 

 garden, however small. Young shoots, downy. 



This is a Sussex plum, and was discovered in a garden at Alderton in that 



