300 THE PLUM. 



distinct suture. Skin purple, where exposed, but in the shade 

 reddish, sprinkled with small specks, and covered with a pale 

 blue bloom. Stalk an inch long. Flesh pale greenish-yellow, 

 juicy, sprightly, and rich, separating from the stone. Ripens 

 about the middle of August. 



61. FROST GAGE. Pom. Man 

 Frost Plum. 



A most valuable late plum, scarcely yielding to any other late 

 variety in the excellence of its flavour. It appears to have ori- 

 ginated in Fishkill, Dutchess co., N. Y., where it has, for many 

 years past, been most extensively cultivated for market. Before 

 fully ripe it abounds with sprightly, sub- 

 acid juice, and is highly esteemed for 

 preserving, and when mature is a sweet 

 and luscious fruit for the dessert. It will 

 hang on the tree till very late frosts. The 

 tree is a tall upright grower, with smooth 

 and rather slender shoots, and bears 

 abundantly. The fruit is in perfection 

 about the first of October, and from its 

 lateness and good quality commands 

 from two to five dollars a bushel, even 

 when hundreds of bushels are sent to 

 New-York market at once.* 



Branches smooth. Fruit rather below Fig. 123. Frost Gage 

 medium size, roundish-oval, with a distinct suture on one side. 

 Skin deep purple, with a few brown specks, and a thin bloom. 

 Stalk half to three-fourths of an inch in length, inserted with 

 little or no depression. Flesh greenish-yellow, juicy, sweet, 

 rich and melting, adhering to the stone. 



62. GOLIATH. Thomp. Lind. 



Caledonian, (of some.) 

 Saint Cloud. 

 Steers's Emperor. 

 Wilmot's late Orleans. 



A large and handsome plum, not quite first rate, but well de- 

 serving cultivation. It is easily distinguished from the Necta- 

 rine plum, with which it has been confounded by its gray, very 

 downy shoots. It bears fine crops. 



* Eighteen hundred dollars have been received by a single farmer in this 

 vicinity, for a single season's crop of this plum. Having some affinity to the 

 Damson, it is, in some districts, liable to the knots, but trifling care will soon 

 banish this enemy. 



