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THE PLUM. 



Branches long and smooth. Fruil 

 of medium size, long-oval. Suture 

 strongly marked, and the fruit larger 

 on one of its sides. Skin pale yel- 

 lowish-green, sometimes dull green 

 only, in the shade. Stalk three- 

 fourths of an inch long, inserted with 

 scarcely any depression. Flesh green- 

 ish-yellow, very juicy and rich, ad- 

 heres somewhat to the stone, which is 

 long and pointed. Last of August. 



14. GHISTON'S EARLY. 



A large and handsome (native ?) 

 fruit, resembling, a good deal, the 

 Magnum Bonum or Yellow Egg Plum, 



Fig. 105. Emerald Drop, but a freestone. Branches smooth, 

 short-jointed. Fruit large, oval, skin clear yellow, with a light 

 bloom. Flesh yellow, separates from the stone, of pleasant fla- 

 vour. Middle of August. 



15. GREEN GAGE. Lang. Lind. Thomp. 



Bruyn 

 Bradford 

 Schuyler's Gfage 

 Wilmot's Green Gage. 



New Green Gage. 



late Green Gage. 



Isleworth Green Gage. 

 Burgnon Gage. 



of some 

 English 

 gardens. 



Heine Claude. 

 Grosse Reine Claude. 

 Grosse Reine. 

 Damas Vert. 

 Sucrin Vert. 

 Vert Bonne. 

 Abricot Vert. 

 Dauphine. 



of various \ 

 French 

 gardens. 



The Green Gage is universally admitted to hold the first rank 

 in flavour among all plums, and is every where highly esteemed. 

 In France, this variety is generally known as the Reine Claude, 

 having, it is said, been introduced 

 into that country by Queen Claude, 

 wife of Francis I. During the last 

 century, an English family by the 

 name of Gage, obtained a number 

 of fruit trees from the monks of 

 Charteuse, near Paris. Among 

 them was a tree of this plum, which, 

 having lost its name, was called by 

 the gardener the Green Gage. It 

 is pronounced, by Lindley, the best 

 plum in England, and we must ad- 

 mit that we have no superiour to it 



Fig. 106. Green Gage. 



