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TIIE PLUM. 



Prune d'Agen. Nois. 



Eobe de Sergent. 



Agen Datte. 



St Maurin. 



Prune de Brignole, {of some.) 



A foreign variety of excellent quality. Tree of moderate 

 £rrowth ; branches smooth, very productive. Fruit medium 

 size, oval, slightly necked, suture small. Skin violet purple, 

 covered with a thick bloom and numerous small dots. Stalk 

 nearly an inch long, a little curved, set in a small depression. 

 Flesh greenish yellow, juicy, sugary, rich, and delicious, 

 slightly adherent to the stone. Ripens middle and last of 

 September. 



Purple Gage. Lind. Pom. Mag. 



Rhine Claude Violette. Tkomp. Nois. 

 Die Yiolette Koning Claudie. Sickler. 

 Yiolet Queen Claude. 



The Purple Gage holds the 

 first place for high flavour 

 among purple plums abroad. 

 Although it is well known in 

 France under the title of the 

 Reine Claude Yiolette, as in Eng- 

 land under that of the Purple 

 Gage, yet its native country is 

 not precisely determined. 



Branches smooth, much like 

 those of the Green Gage. Fruit 

 medium sized, shaped like the 

 Green Gage, roundish, a little 

 flattened. Suture shallow, but 

 distinct. Stalk an inch long, J'urpk Ga^e.^ 



rather thick, set in a narrow cavity. Skin a little thick, violet* 

 dotted with pale yellow, and covered with light blue bloom* 

 Flesh greenish-yellow, rather firm, rich, sugary, and very high 

 flavoured. Separates from the stone, which is oval and com- 

 pressed. Ripens rather late, and will hang on the tree — shri- 

 velling a little, but not cracking — all the month of Stptem 

 ber. 



Purple Favourite. 



This delicious fruit received its name from us some years 

 age. The tree from which the stock now in this country was 

 derived, stood for many years (until it died of old age,) in the 

 contre of the principal garden here, and was planted by the 



