of Select Varieties of Plums. 



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colored, aiid slightly downy. Its great productiveness may 

 be judged from the fact, that the crop of a single tree, grow- 

 ing in the garden of S. R. Johnson, of Charlestown, has been 

 sold for the very large sum of fifty dollars. 



Size, large, about two inches long, and one and three 

 quarters broad : Form, roundish oval, regular, little flattened 

 at the base, narrowing to the 

 apex, with a very shallow 

 suture, one half slightly larger 

 than the other : Skin, fair, 

 smooth, dull greenish yellow, 

 distinctly streaked and clouded, 

 with pale green beneath, dotted 

 with brownish red around the 

 stem, and covered with a thin 

 whitish bloom : Stem, medium 

 length, little more ,than half an 

 inch long, moderately stout, 

 little curved, and deeply in- 

 serted in a round somewhat 

 open cavity: Flesh, yellowish 

 green, fine, melting, and very 

 juicy, separating from the stone : Flavor, rich, sprightly, and 

 delicious : Stone, roundish ovate, flattened, depressed at the 

 ends, smooth. Ripe early in September. 



Imperial Gage. 



15. Purple Favorite, Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. 



The Purple Favorite {fig. 27,) is supposed to have 

 originated in the nurseries of Messrs. Downing, at New- 

 burgh, N, Y. The original tree, from which scions were 

 disseminated, died a few years since from old age ; and as- 

 no variety has ever been imported which could be identified 

 with it, it has been rightly supposed to be a native variety. 

 It is one of the finest plums, not excelled by anything but 

 the Green Gage, or the McLaughlin, and is worthy of a 

 place in every choice collection. 



