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BELGIAN PUBPLE (Bleu de Belgique). Fruit medium 

 sized, roundish, marked with a shallow suture, one side 

 of which is a little swollen. Skin deep purple, covered 

 with blue bloom. Stalk about an inch long, inserted in 

 a cavity. Flesh greenish, rather coarse, very juicy, 

 sweet, and rich, slightly adherent to the stone. Shoots 

 smooth. Ripe in the middle of August. 



BELLE DE SEPTEMBRE (Reina Nova; Gros Rouge de 

 Septemlre). Fruit large, roundish-oval, marked with a 

 shallow suture. Skin thin, violet-red, thickly covered 

 with yellow dots, and a thin blue bloom. Stalk tialf an 

 inch long, slender, inserted in a shallow cavity. Flesh 

 yellowish-white, firm, juicy, sweet, and aromatic. Shoots 

 downy. 



A first-rate plum for cooking or preserving ; it furnishes 

 a fine crimson juice or syrup. Ripe in the beginning 

 and middle of October. 



Black Damask. See Morocco. 



JBlack Morocco. See Morocco. 



Black Perdrigon. See Slue Gaffe. 



Bleeker's Gage. See Sleeker s Yelloio Gage. 



Bleeker's Scarlet. See Lombard. 



BLEEKER'S YELLOW GAGE (Bleeker's Gage; German 

 Gage). Fruit medium sized, roundish-oval, marked with 

 a faint suture. Skin yellow, containing numerous im- 

 bedded white specks, and covered with thin white bloom. 

 Stalk downy, an inch and a quarter long, not depressed. 

 Flesh yellow, rich, and sweet, separating freely from the 

 stone. Shoots downy. Ripe in the middle of September. 



Bleu de Belgique. See Belgian Purple. 



BLUE GAGE (Azure Hative ; Black Perdrigon ; Cooper's 

 Blue Gage}. Fruit of medium size, quite round. Skin 

 dark purple, covered with a blue bloom. Stalk three 

 quarters of an inch long. Flesh yellowish-green, juicy, 

 briskly and somewhat richly flavoured, separating from 

 the stone. Shoots downy. 



A second-rate plum. Ripe in the beginning of August. 



BLUE IMPERATRICE ( Imperatrice ; Empress). Fruit 

 medium sized, obovate, tapering considerably towards 

 the stalk, and marked with a shallow suture. Skin deep 

 purple, covered with a thick blue bloom. Stalk about an 

 inch long, not depressed. Flesh greenish-yellow, of a 



