462 PLUMS. 



Coe's Imperial. Ib. 



Bury Seedling. Ib. 



New Golden Drop. Ib. 



Fair's Golden Drop. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 103. ac- 

 cording to the Pom. Mag. 



Branches smooth. Leaves with two globular glands 

 at the base. Fruit oval, of the largest size among 

 Plums, about two inches and a half long, and two inches 

 in diameter, deeply marked by the suture, pitted at the 

 point, abruptly tapering and hollowed out at the base 

 for the reception of the stalk. Stalk three quarters of 

 an inch long, slender. Skin greenish yellow, with 

 numerous rich spots of bright violet red next the sun. 

 Flesh greenish yellow, adhering firmly to the stone. 

 Juice very sweet and delicious. Stone sharp-pointed. 



Ripe the end of September, and will hang some time 

 upon the tree after it is matured. 



This will keep for a considerable length of time, 

 after it is gathered, either by suspending it by the stalk 

 upon a string, withinside a window facing the sun, or by 

 wrapping it in soft paper, and keeping it in a dry 

 room. By this latter method, I have eaten it exceed- 

 ingly good in October, twelve months after it had^been 

 gathered. 



It was raised by the late Jervaise Coe, a market gar- 

 dener at Bury St. Edmund's, in Suffolk, more than 

 thirty years ago. He informed me it was from the 

 stone of a Green Gage, the blossom of which, he sup- 

 posed, had been fertilised by the White Magnum Bonum, 

 the two trees of which grew nearly in contact with each 

 other in his garden. It requires an east or a west wall ; 

 on the former the fruit attains its greatest perfection. 



46. DOWNTON IMPERATRICE. Hort. Trans. Vol. v. 

 p. 383. 



Branches long, smooth. Fruit shaped almost like 

 the Blue Imperatrice, but larger, and not so much 



