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The Green Gage is a very short-jointed, slow growing tree, 

 of spreading and rather dwarfish habit. It is an abundant and 

 pretty regular bearer, though the fruit is a little liable to crack 

 upon the tree in wet seasons. 



Branches smooth. Buds with large shoulders. Fruit round, 

 rather small, seldom of medium size. Suture faintly marked, 

 but extending from the stalk to the apex. Skin green, or yel- 

 lowish-green at full maturity, when it is often a little dotted or 

 marbled with red. Stalk half to three-fourths of an inch long, 

 slender, very slightly inserted. Flesh pale green, exceedingly 

 melting and juicy, and usually separates freely from the stone. 

 Flavour, at once, sprightly and very luscious. Ripe about the 

 middle of August. 



There are several seedling varieties of this plum in various 

 parts of this country but none superiour or scarcely equal to 

 the old. That known as the Bruyn Gage, which has been dis- 

 seminated from the garden of A. Bruyn, Esq., of Kingston, N. Y., 

 is only the true Reine Claude, brought by Chancellor Livingston 

 from France. 



16. HUDSON GAGE. 



A new early plum, which promises to rank among the first, of 

 the season at which it ripens. It is one of the seedlings which 

 Mr. Lawrence, of the city of Hudson, (see Lawrence's Favour- 

 ite,) has had the good fortune to give to the public within a few 

 years. It has some affinity to the Imperial Gage, but ripens 

 three weeks earlier. 



Branches slightly downy. Fruit of medium size, oval, a 

 little enlarged on one side of the obscure suture. Skin yellow, 

 clouded with green streaks under the skin, and covered with a 

 thin white bloom. Stalk short, little more than half an inch 

 long, inserted in a moderate hollow. Flesh greenish, very 

 juicy and melting, with a rich, sprightly, excellent flavour. It 

 separates from the stone, (adhering very slightly,) which is quite 

 small. First week in August, two weeks before the Washington. 



17. HULINGS' SUPERB. Pom. Man. 

 Keyset's Plum. 



A noble plum, of the largest size, raised from seed by Mr. 

 Keyser, of Pennsylvania, but first made known to cultivators by 

 Dr. Wm. G. Hulings, of the same state. It is as large as the 

 Washington, frequently measuring six inches in circumference, 

 or two and a fourth in diameter, the longest way. In flavour, it 

 is more sprightly than that plum, having its sweetness relieved 

 by a little acidity, and is scarcely inferiour to the Green Gage. 

 It is productive, and in every way, a fruit of great merit. 



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