THE PLUM. 



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Furple Favourite. 



father of the author. Its origin 

 we were never able to learn, 

 and we have not been able 

 during all our pomological re- 

 searches and comparisons, to 

 identify it with any other sort. 

 The Purple Favourite, when 

 in perfection, is not surpassed 

 by any other plum in luscious 

 flavour. It is more juicy and 

 melting than the Purple Gage, 

 and has some aflBnity to the 

 Diapree Rouge, or Mimms. It 

 should have a place in every 

 garden, as it bears well, and is 

 very hardy. In the nursery it 

 has the dwarfish habit of the 

 Green Gage, but more slender 

 shoots. 



Branches nearly smooth, short 

 jointed. Fruit medium size, 

 often large, roundish- obovate. Suture none. Skin light brown 

 in the shade, brownish-purple in the sun, dotted with numerous 

 golden specks, and dusted with thin, light blue bloom. Stalk 

 three-fourths to one inch long, set in a very slight depression. 

 Flesh pale greenish, very juicy, tender, melting, with a luscious 

 sweetness. Parts freely from the stone, which is very small 

 and roundish. Begins- to ripen about the 20th of August, and 

 will hang for a fortnight on the tree. 



This is known, incorrectly, as the Purple Gage, in some parts 

 of the country. 



Red Gage. Pom. Man. 



An American plum, of delicious 

 flavour, very hardy, and a prodigious 

 bearer. It is a seedling raised from 

 the Green Gage, by the elder Wm. 

 Prince, of the Flushing Nurseries, in 

 1790. It grows very vigorously, and 

 is distinguished, when young, by its 

 deep green, crimped foliage. 



Branches dark reddish, smooth. 

 Fruit about as large as the Green 

 Gage, but more oval, regularly formed. 

 Skin brownish or brick red, with little 

 bloom. Stalk rather slender, set in a 

 narrow cavity. Flesh greenish-amber, 

 very juicy, melting, sugary, and lus- 

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Bed Gage, 



