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may be properly grown on an espalier-rail, or as a dwarf 

 standard. 



The Drap d- Or is a small yellow plum of high flavor, 

 ripening in the beginning of September. On a light soil 

 the tree is a tolerable bearer ; but on a heavy soil it seldom 

 succeeds. The fruit precedes the green-gage in ripening, 

 and resembles it in quality. 



Coe's Golden Drop is a fine large oval plum ; excellent 

 either for the table or for preserving. It keeps well, and 

 Mr. Lindley informs us that he has eaten it exceedingly 

 good twelve months after it had been gathered, It requires 

 the best aspect of a wall, and will scarcely answer in a 

 bleak climate. 



Reine Claude Violette, L. Hort. Cat., 232. Purple- 

 Gage, Lind., p. 555. A very high-flavored variety, resem- 

 bling, color excepted, the green-gage. It succeeds on stan- 

 dards, but is improved by a wall. The tree is a good bearer. 



Washington, L. Hort. Cat., 266 ; Amer. Orchard, 

 p. 268. Fruit rather large, roundish oval, pale yellow on 

 the shaded side, and of a fine glaucous light purple on the 

 exposed side ; of excellent quality, little inferior to the 

 green-gage. The tree is vigorous, and bears well against a 

 wall, the fruit ripening about the middle of August. Being 

 an early plum, it will, in favorable situations, succeed as a 

 standard. It is, as the name imports, of American origin. 

 It ought to be in every collection. 



Couper's Large Red is a plum of large size, oval ; 

 suture deeply cleft on one side ; skin of a bluish glaucous 

 purple on the exposed side, on the other side dull red ; flesh 

 firm, adhering to the stone ; ripening in the beginning of 

 September on a south wall, in Scotland. Although this is 

 only a fruit of second quality, yet the tree well merits a 

 place on account of its great productiveness. 



