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der upon them. The leaves are large, and 

 of a bright green colour. I have feen it 

 bear good fruit on a ftandard with proper 

 cutting, and likewife in all other fliapes. 



N. B. A tree of this kind was fent from 

 France, by the right honourable the Earl 

 of Stair, to his Grace the fecond Duke of 

 Rutland, by the name of the green Spanifh 

 plum. 



There is a green plum taken for the green 

 Gauge, which is not like it, if duly obferv- 

 ed, except in part of its colour. I have 

 heard it called the green oftridge; it is about 

 the fize of the green Gauge, but longer, 

 and when full ripe more yellow, without 

 any purple upon it, and its juice has quite 

 an infipid tafte; the pulp is yellow, and 

 flicks clofe to the ftone, and it ripens ra- 

 ther earlier than the green Gauge, but 

 without any of its perfections^ the fize and 

 fhape of their leaves are nearly alike, fo 

 is their colour, but the young fhoots are 

 fomewhat greener than thofe of the former. 



The Maitre Claude is a middle fized 

 plum, of a round fliape, but rather narrow 

 at the upper end, with a furrow on the 



fide. 



