WHITE OR YELLOW PLUMS. 281 



will soon give it a place in eveiy garden, and we think it de- 

 serving our highest commendation. Specimen trees only 8 feet 

 high, have borne abundantly with us this season. 



Lawrence's Favourite forms an upright tree of thrifty growth, 

 with dark green leaves, (which are rather below the medium 

 size,) and upright growing short-jointed shoots. Young branch- 

 es, downy. 



Fruit large, heavy, roundish, a little flattened at either end. 

 Skin dull yellowish-green, clouded with streaks of a darker 

 shade beneath, and covered with a light bluish-green bloom. 

 The upper part of the fruit, when fully ripe, is covered with a 

 peculiar IrrownisJi net-work, and a few reddish dots. Stalk short, 

 only half an inch long, slender, inserted in a narrow cavity. 

 Flesh greenish, resembling that of the Green Gage, remarkably 

 juicy, and melting, perhaps scarcely so rich as the latter, but 

 with a very rich, sprightly, vinous flavour, and one of the most 

 delicious of plums. Stone five eighths of an inch long, flat- 

 tened ; the flesh sometimes adheres a little, when not fully 

 ripe, but then separates freely. Ripens at the middle of Au- 

 gust, 



23. LUCOMBE'S NONESUCH. Thomp. Lind. P. Mag. 



An English plum raised by Lucombe, of the Exeter Nursery. 

 It is a large, yellowish-green clingstone fruit, of good quality, 

 but, unless fully ripe, not very rich in flavour. Branches 

 smooth. 



Fruit above medium size, roundish, shaped and coloured 

 much like the Green Gage, but much more distinctly streaked 

 with yellow and orange, and covered with a whitish bloom. 

 Suture broad. Stalk straight, three fourths of an inch long, set 

 in a wide hollow. Flesh pretty firm, greenish, rich, sweet 

 mingled with acid, adheres to the stone. Bears well, and ripens 

 about the middle of August. 



24. LARGE GREEN DRYING. Thomp. 

 Knight's Large Drying. Ken. 



A new late variety, raised, we believe, by Mr. Knight, and 

 introduced here from the garden of the Horticultural Society, 

 of London. It has produced fruit for the first time this season, 

 scarcely giving us an opportunity of judging, but Mr. Thomp- 

 son, the head of the fruit department, in that garden, describes it 

 as of the first quality, bearing " fruit as large as that of the 

 Washington, which when perfectly ripened, is exceedingly rich." 

 The tree is vigorous, and the branches are smooth ; the fruit 

 large, round, greenish-yellow, the flesh yellowish, moderately 



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