782 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



A delicious dessert plum. It is ripe in the beginning of September, 

 and becomes quite a sweetmeat when it shrivels. Shoots, smooth. 



WYEDALE. Fruit, below medium size ; oval. Skin, dark purple, 

 almost black, and covered with a thin blue bloom. Stalk, bright green 

 to the last, set in a small cavity. Flesh, brisk, juicy, and agreeably 

 flavoured, adhering closely to the stone. 



A culinary plum ; ripe in October. It is much grown in the northern 

 parts of Yorkshire, and is not unlike the Winesour in appearance, but 

 is very much later. 



Yellow Apricot. See Apricot. 



YELLOW DAMASK (Damns Jaime). Fruit, below medium size ; 

 nearly round. Skin, yellow, with a fine white bloom. Flesh, very 

 juicy and rich, separating from the stone. 



A delicious little plum ; ripe in the beginning of October. Shoots, 

 smooth. 



YELLOW GAGE (Gonne's Green Gage; Little Queen Claude; 

 Heine Claude Petite } Petit / ><//>/</* Vert; White Gage). Fruit, below 

 medium size ; round, and marked with a shallow suture. Skin, green- 

 ish yellow, thickly covered with white bloom. Stalk, half an inch long, 

 inserted in a pretty deep cavity. Flesh, yellowish white, firm, rather 

 coarse-grained, but sweet and pleasantly flavoured, separating from the 

 stone. 



A dessert plum of second-rate quality ; ripe in the beginning and 

 middle of September. Shoots, smooth. 



YELLOW IMPERATRICE (Altesse Blanche; Monsieur a 

 Jaune; Virginale Blanche). Fruit, large ; roundish oval, marked with 

 a suture, which is deep at the apex, and becomes shallow towards the 

 stalk. Skin, deep golden yellow, with a few streaks of red about the 

 stalk, which is half an inch long. Flesh, yellow, juicy, and melting, 

 sugary, and richly flavoured, and adhering to the stone. 



An excellent dessert plum ; ripe in the middle of August. Shoots, 

 smooth. 



YELLOW JERUSALEM (Jeniwlem J tunic ; Jahris (lelbe 

 Itmt-pfonime). Fruit, an inch and three-quarters in diameter ; roundish 

 oval, with a taint suture. Skin, golden or deep yellow, speckled with 

 crimson on the side next the sun. Stalk, three-quarters of an inch 

 long, slender, deeply inserted. Flesh, yellow, with white veins, tender, 

 juicy, sweet, brisk, and highly flavoured, adhering to the stone. 



An excellent dessert plum ; ripening in the beginning of September. 



Yellow Magnum Bonum. See White Mtiynum JJonum. 

 Yellow Perdrigon. See Drap d'Or. 

 Zwetsche. See Quetsche. 



