THE COE'S GOLDEN DROP PLUM. 



Goes Golden Drop. Hort. See. Catalogue, 3d Ed. 1842. 



Coe's, Pomological Magazine, vol. ii. p. 57. 



Coe's Imperial, \ 



Golden Drop, 



New Golden Drop, ^-. ^ ^ . , „. t^, .^,^ 



„ ,, y Hort. Soc. Catalogue, 3d Ed. 1842. 



13uRY Seedling, ° 



Fair's Golden Drop, 



Golden Gage, / 



King of Plums, of some Collections. 



Waterloo, of some French Collections. 



Coe's Golden Drop is one of the most de- 

 licious of all plums. Nearly approaching the 

 Washington in size, — equalling the Green Gage 

 in the lusciousness of its juice, — and coming in 

 some time after both of these varieties are gone, 

 it may be justly ranked as one of the best kinds 

 yet produced, and indispensable to even the very 

 smallest collection of plums. 



Coe's Golden Drop was raised from seed, up- 

 wards of forty years ago, by Mr. Jervase Coe, a 

 market-gardener, at Bury St. Edmunds, in Suffolk, near London. It 

 originated from a stone of the Green Gage, the blossoms of which, Mr. 

 Coe supposed, had been fertilized by the White Magnum Bonum ; the 

 two trees of which grew nearly in contact with each other in his garden. 

 The great resemblance of the Golden Drop, in size and color, to one 

 parent, and the near approach, in its high flavor, to the other, would 

 seem to favor this supposition. The superiority of this plum made it a 

 great favorite among cultivators, and it soon became generally introduced 

 into all choice collections of this fruit, under the several synonymes 

 which we have quoted above, with the exception of the last, which is of 

 recent addition to the list. This name originated, we beheve, among 

 the French nurserymen, and trees, received from France as the Water- 

 loo, have proved to be the Golden Drop. 



An impression has prevailed, that this line plum, on account of its 

 late maturity, does not succeed well in this country only in the Middle 

 States. This, however, is not correct ; for, as far as we have any knowl- 

 edge, it ripens freely, and produces abundantly: in the extreme northern 



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