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Wilmot's Early Orleans. See Early Orleans. 



"Wilmot's Green Gage. See Green Gage. 



Wilmot'g Late Orleans. See Goliath. 



Wilmot's Orleans. See Early Orleans. 



WINESOUB (Rotherham). Fruit below medium size, 

 oval. Skin dark purple, covered with darker purple 

 specks. Stalk half an inch long. Flesh greenish-yellow, 

 agreeably acid, and having red veins near the stone, to 

 which it adheres. Shoots downy. 



A very valuable preserving plum. Bipe in the middle 

 of September. 



WOOLSTON BLACK GAGE. Fruit about medium size, 

 round, and marked with a shallow suture. Skin deep 

 purple, almost black, strewed with small dots, and covered 

 with blue bloom. Flesh melting, juicy, sugary, and rich, 

 separating from the stone. Shoots smooth. 



A dessert plum of excellent quality. Bipe in the be- 

 ginning of September. 



Yellow Apricot. See Apricot. 



YELLOW GAGE (Gonnes Green Gage; Little Queen 

 Claude; Seine Claude Petite; Petit Damas Vert; 

 White Gaffe). Fruit below medium size, round, and 

 marked with a shallow suture. Skin greenish-yellow, 

 thickly covered with white bloom. Stalk half an inch 

 long, inserted in a pretty deep cavity. Flesh yellowish- 

 white, firm, rather coarse-grained, but sweet and plea- 

 santly flavoured, separating from the stone. Shoots 

 smooth. 



A dessert plum of second-rate quality. Bipe in the 

 beginning and middle of September. 



YELLOW IMPERATRICE (Altesse Blanche ; Monsieur a 

 Fruits Jaune). Fruit large, roundish-oval, marked with 

 a suture, which is deep at the apex and becomes shallow 

 towards the stalk. Skin deep golden yellow, with a few 

 streaks of red about the stalk, which is half an inch long. 

 Flesh yellow, juicy and melting, sugary and richly 

 flavoured, and adhering to the stone. Shoots smooth. 



An excellent dessert plum. Bipe in the middle of 

 August. 



Yellow Magnum Bonum. See White Magnum Bonum. 



Yellow Perdrigon. See Drop d'Or. 



Zwetsche. See Quetsche. 



