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EARLY ORLEANS. 



Wilmot's Early Orleans, I New Orleans, I Hampton Court, 



New Early Orleans, | Grimwood's Early Orleans, | Monsieur Uatif. 



An English variety, which on accounts of its quality and early maturity 

 must always make it popular as an orchard fruit. Branches, downy. Fruit, 

 medium, round oval; suture, shallow; skin, dark reddish purple; flesh, 

 yellowish green, of rich, brisk flavor, and separating freely from the stone ; 

 stem, usually about half-inch long, but varying. First August. 



FELLENBERG. 



Italian Prune, | Prune Suisse. 



Foreign. Branches, grayish, smooth ; moderate grower ; very produc- 

 tive. Fruit, ovate rounded, dark purplish, not juicy ; free-stone ; large ; 

 " very good." Valuable for drying. Last September. 



OREEN GAGE. 



Ida Green Gage, 



Waterloo, 



King of Plums, 



Wilmot's Late Green Gage, 



Schuyler Gage. 



Rensselaer Gage, 

 Isleworth Green Gage, 

 Wilmot's Green Gage. 



New Green Gage, 



Brugnon Gage, 



Bruyn Gage, 

 Bradford Gage, 

 Ecine Claude, 

 Grosse Reine Claude, 

 Grosse Heine. 



" During the last century, an English family by the name of Gage, ob- 

 tained 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." There are very few trees in 

 bearing of the true variety at the West, the Imperial Gage having been of- 

 ten sold as Green Gage. The true variety is readily known by its short 

 jointed, slow-growing, spreading, and dwarfish habit. It also requires a 

 rich, warm soil to insure fruit in perfection in locations north of 42 deg. 

 Branches, smooth ; buds, with large shoulders. Fruit, medium, round ; 

 suture, sli-ght ; skin, yellowish green, marbled and dotted on the sunny 

 side with red ; flesh, separates freely from the stone, pale green, exceedingly 

 melting, rich, sprightly, high flavor ; stalk, slender, slightly inserted. Mid- 

 dle to last August. 



IMPERIAL GAGE. 



Prince's Imperial Gage, I "White Gage, I Superior Green Gage. 



Flushing Gage, | Jenkinson's Imperial, | 



This is an American variety, originating at the old nursery of William 

 Prince. Flushing, N. Y. In heavy, strong soils it is sometimes deficient 

 in flavor, probably from a deficiency of some particular element in the soil, 

 as it produces abundantly, grows vigorously, and trees apparently healthy. 

 In light, loamy, or even dry, poor soils, it is a hardy, productive variety, 

 and the flavor often almost equaling a true Green Gage. As a market 

 variety, it is far superior to Green Gage, and hardly surpassed by any 

 other plum. Branches, slightly downy, da^-colored, upright, vigorous. 

 Fruit, above medium, oval ; suture, distinct ; skin, at first pale green, with 

 a white bloom, becoming yellowish green, marbled with dark green stripes ; 

 flesh, greenish, juicy, rich, sprightly flavor : stone, oval, with flesh occa- 

 sionally adhering in good seasons and soils, it separates freely from the 

 stone ; stalk, long, hairy, stout, inserted in an even cavity. First Septem- 

 ber ; at the South, July first. 



IMPERIAL OTTOMAN. 



A foreign variety, but from whence is uncertain. We have fruited it 

 geveral years, and. as an early variety, have not met its super: or. The 



