446 PLUMS. 



Ripe on the open standard the middle of August. 



Ripened at Twickenham in 17^7> n an east wall, 

 July 30. O. S., or August 10. N. S. 



This is, without exception, the best Plum in England ; 

 and when grown upon a healthy standard, and fully ex- 

 posed to the sun, although not so large, is much richer 

 than when produced against a wall. It is also a hardy 

 and most excellent bearer. 



A plant of this sort was sent from France by the 

 Earl of Stair to the second Duke of Rutland, by the 

 name of Green Spanish. The name of Green Gage 

 is said to have originated from the following accident : 

 The Gage family, in the last century, procured from 

 the Monks of the Chartreuse at Paris, a collection of 

 fruit trees. When they arrived in England, the ticket 

 of the Reine Claude had been rubbed off in the passage. 

 The gardener being from this circumstance ignorant 

 of the name, called it, when it bore fruit, Green Gage. 

 Vide Hort. Trans. Vol. i. Appendix, p. 8. by the Right 

 Honourable Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. 



11. LITTLE QUEEN CLAUDE. Miller, No. 16. 

 Petite Reine Claude. Duhamel, No, 26. 

 Branches slender, downy. Fruit small, of a roundish 



figure, having a small suture, and being a little more 

 swelled on one side than on the other, about one inch 

 and a quarter deep, and a little more in diameter. 

 Stalk half an inch long, inserted in a small hollow. 

 Skin yellowish green, covered with a thick blooiH. 

 Flesh pale yellow, and separates from the stone. Juice 

 rich and well flavoured. Stone oval, with an obtuse point. 

 Ripe the end of August. 



12. LUCOMBE'S NONESUCH. Pom. Mag. t. 99. 

 Branches smooth. Fruit extremely like a Green 



Gage in colour, but more streaked with yellow, covered 

 with a fine glaucous bloom 5 generally compressed in the 

 direction of its suture, which is the reverse of the usual 



