256 PLUMS. 



Skin brownish-red, thinly strewed with minute dots. 

 Stalk three quarters of an inch long. Flesh, firm, tender, 

 sweet, and well flavoured, separating with difficulty from 

 the stone. Shoots downy. 



A dessert or preserving plum. Ripe in October. 



TOPAZ (GutJiries Topaz). Fruit medium sized, oval, 

 narrowing at the stalk, and marked with a distinct 

 suture. Skin fine clear yellow, covered with thin bloom. 

 Stalk an inch long, inserted in a small cavity. Flesh 

 yellow, juicy, sweet, and richly flavoured, adhering to 

 the stone. Shoots smooth. 



A dessert plum, ripening in the middle and end of 

 September, and hanging till it shrivels. 



TRANSPARENT GAGE (Prune Transparente ; Heine 

 Claude Diaphane}. Fruit rather larger than the Green 

 Gage, roundish- oval, marked with a shallow suture. 

 Skin thin and so transparent as to show the texture of 

 the flesh, and also the stone when the fruit is held up 

 between the eye and the light ; pale yellow, dotted and 

 marbled with rjed. Stalk three quarters of an inch long, 

 thin, and inserted in a shallow cavity. Flesh yellow, 

 rather firm and transparent, very juicy, and with a rich 

 honied sweetness, separating with difficulty from the 

 stone. Shoots smooth. 



A most delicious dessert plum. Ripe in the beginning 

 of September. 



Trompe Garcon. See Green Gage. 



Trompe Valet. See Green Gage. 



Turkish Quetsche. See Quetsche. 



Verdacia. See Green Gage. 



Verdochio. See Green Gage. 



Verte Bonne. See Green Gage. 



Verte Tiquetee. See Green Gage. 



VICTORIA (Alderton ; Denver's Victoria ; Sharp's 

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

 shallow suture. Skin bright red on the side next the 

 sun, but pale red on the shaded side, and covered with 

 thin bloom. Stalk three quarters of an inch long, stout. 

 Flesh yellow, very juicy, sweet, and pleasantly flavoured, 

 separating from the stone. Shoots downy. 



A culinary plum. Ripe in the beginning and middle 

 of September. 



