456 PLUMS. 



Fruit, except in colour, very like the Green Gage, 

 middle-sized, roundish oval, somewhat flattened at the 

 ends. Suture moderately depressed. Stalk about an 

 inch long, rather thick. Skin violet, powdered with a 

 light blue bloom, beneath which it is engrained with 

 pale yellow dots. Flesh greenish amber, rich, sugary, 

 and strikingly high flavoured. Stone oval, inclining to 

 ovate, compressed. 



Ripe the end of August and beginning of September. 



The origin of this variety is unknown ; it must, how- 

 ever, be recent, as it is not mentioned by Duhamel, nor 

 by any of the older French writers, and is even omitted 

 by Noisette in his Javelin Fruitier. It is of very high 

 quality, fully equal to the Green Gage in all respects, 

 and having this superiority, that while the latter is apt 

 to crack in wet summers, and will never keep after 

 having been gathered, this, on the contrary, will endure, 

 if the climate be dry, through August and September, 

 even till October, and is scarcely at all disposed to 

 crack. 



A good bearer as a standard. It is also well adapted 

 to an east or west wall, where its flavour becomes im- 

 proved. 



32. QUEEN MOTHER. Ray, No. 19 Langley, 

 p. 94. t. 24. fig. 3. Hitt, p. 353. 



Branches smooth. Fruit of a smallish size, nearly 

 globular, about three inches and a half in circumference. 

 Stalk short. Skin dark red next the sun, on the othftr 

 side pale .yellow, full of reddish spots. Flesh yellow, 

 and separates from the stone. Juice saccharine and 

 rich. Stone very small in proportion to the fruit. 



Ripe the beginning and middle of September. 



It ripened at Twickenham in 1727> on a south wall, 

 August 12. O. S., or August 23. N. S. Langley. 



A very good, neat, little Plum ; it will succeed on 

 either an east or west wall, but not as an open standard. 



