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was rubbed off in the package. The gar- 

 dener, therefore, being ignorant of the name, 

 called it, when it first bore fruit, the Green 

 Gage. The compliment was justly due to 

 the family for the introduction of this excel- 

 lent plum, which is more acceptable to the 

 country at large, than the trifling respect can 

 be to the family of Gage. Lord Cromwell 

 brought several sorts of plums from Italy into 

 this country, in the reign of Henry VII. : 

 among them was the Perdrigoq. 



The Bonurn Magnum is our largest plum, 

 and greatly esteemed for preserves and cu- 

 linary purposes. A plum of the same size 

 and shape, but of a yellower hue, has lately 

 beeh introduced by a Mr. Coe, of Brompton, 

 and is called Coe's Golden Drop. In flavour 

 it partakes both of the Green Gage and the 

 Apricot. I have several standard trees in my 

 garden at Bayswater, which are very pro- 

 ductive; and the fruit has the quality of 

 keeping perfectly sound and good until near 

 Christmas, if it be gathered with the stalk 

 or a part of the branch, and suspended in a 

 dry room. 



Plums are now forced in the highest 

 perfection, which enables the gardener to 

 supply the spring desserts with the autumnal 

 fruits. 



