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PRINCE'S YELLOW GAGE PLUM. 



Sj'nonymes — Yellow Gage, American Yelloio Gage, White Gage. 



This plum was raised sixty-six years ago, by the 

 elder Mr. Prince, of Flushing. The excellency of 

 its fruit, and the habits of the tree, commend it for 

 general culture, as it is among the very best early 

 plums. The tree is remarkably hardy, very vigorous, 

 and productive. 



The fruit is large medial ; nearly oval ; slight 

 Buture ; of a rich golden-yellow covered with white 

 bloom ; stem nearly an inch in length, slender, in a 

 very narrow cavity ; flesh deep yellow, rich, sweet, 

 and molting ; sometimes a little dry, or juice not 

 abundant. Freestone. Ripens from the twelfth to 

 the last of August. 



The Yellow Gage forms a large, long-lived tree, 

 and is among the best and most valuable plums of 

 its season, either for market or the private garden. 

 A few days ago, we saw in the garden of Mr. Henry 

 Vandyne, Cambridgcport, two trees of this variety, 

 that were set twenty-four years ago. One is in 

 a healthy, vigorous condition ; the other has lost a 

 part of its top, but it has been a profitable tree, hav- 

 ing produced in one year upwards of fifty dollars 

 worth of fruit. Mr. A. Lackey, Jr., of Marblehead, 



had two and a half bushels this season from a tree 

 set out eight years ago, from a fine bunch of which 

 our engraving is made. 



OBITUARY. 



Within a short period, two of the most distinguished 

 lights in the agricultural community of our country 

 have set forever. 



About two months ago, Elias Phinney, Esq., died 

 at his residence in Lexington. As a practical farmer 

 and agricultural \\Titer, Mr. Phinney held a dis- 

 tinguished rank ; and he was one of the principal 

 pioneers in agricultural improvement in this country. 

 Though he is no more, his works still live, and are 

 exerting a wide-spread and happy influence. 



Rev. Henry Colman, long distinguished as an able 

 and interesting agricultural writer, who was an 

 agricultural commissioner of this commonwealth, 

 and recently an agricultural tourist in Europe, died, 

 about a month since, in England, as he was about te 

 embark for this country. This was his second trip 

 tb that country. 



