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FKUIT: form, roundish conical; apex pointed; size, medium; suture distinct; skin 

 thick, tenacious; color bright red, deepening to dark red when fully ripe, with light 

 bluish bloom; stem one-half an inch long; cling. 



FLESH: color yellow; texture somewhat juicy, moderately firm; flavor agreeable. 



QUALITY: dessert, good; cooking, very good; an excellent substitute for the Damson. 



VALUE: market, first class. The earliest plum of value on early locations. 



SEASON: late July to early August. 



REINE CLAUDE (Reine Claude de Bavay. Green Gage). 



The Reine Claude and several varieties of the Green Gage type are of especial value 

 for culinary purposes. For pies, sauce or canning purposes they seem to be growing in 

 demand year after year and no collection of plums for the home garden is, therefore, 

 complete without a tree or more of this or some other variety of this family. With 

 Ontario fruit growers, the most popular Gage is the Reine Claude de Bavay, commonly 

 known among them as Reine Claude, which name is also an old synonym of the Green 

 Gage. In the catalogue of the American Pomological Society it is called Bavay. The 

 fruit of this later variety is in good demand among canners, and brings a fair price 

 in our markets. 



REINE CLAUDE. 



ORIGIN: this type of plum was brought from Italy to France about the year 1500 

 by Queen Claudia, wife of Francis I., after w r hom it was named Reine Claudia. Later, 

 some trees were brought to England by a family named Gage, but the label on these 

 trees being lost, the gardener called them Green Gage. Hogg, the English pomologist, 

 however, tried to prove that this plum had been introduced into England before this 

 time under the name of Reine Claude, and hence arose considerable confusion of names. 



TREE: productive; hardy, a slow grower. 



