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GEORGE BUNYAED & CO.'S FRUIT CATALOGUE. 



SELECT PLUMS FOR THE GARDEN (In their order of ripening). 



End July, beginning August. 



St. Etienne 

 *Kivers' Early Prolific 



Rivers' Stint 

 •Rivers' Czar 

 *Rivers' Heron 



Early or New Orleans 

 Middle to end of August. 



Smith's Blue 



Oullin's Golden Gage 

 •Dennistons Superb 



Early Normandy 



Transparent Gage, early 



*The Sultan 

 •Belgian Purple 

 Curlew 



Transparent Gage (original) 



Golden Esperen 



Kirke's Blue 

 •Victoria 



Reine Claude Rouge 



Green Gage (old) 

 •Jefferson 



Bryanstone Gage 



Comte d'Atthema 

 Amateur's Selection marked *, are sure bearers 



Anna Spath 



Pond's Seedling 



Bonne Bouche 



R. Claude de Bavay 



Late Transparent Gage 

 Late. 



Boulouf 



Coe's Golden Drop 

 •Grand Duke 



Coe's Violet 

 •Rivers' Monarch 



Wyedale 



Golden Transparent 



Plums succeed as Standards or Pyramids, a few require a wall ; as open Espaliers they do not generally 

 flourish. Root pruning is very beneficial to all the fast growing kinds, and Pyramids or Bushes so treated 

 and summer pruned are very fruitful ; trees about a yard high have produced three and four dozen fruit in 

 the Nurseries In the warmer districts Plums on a Worth "Wall produce large and handsome fruit, which 

 comes for use after the general crop is over, and by netting they can be kept still later ; but in Scotland the 

 choicer kinds are preferable on a wall. Plums also form very profitable and interesting objects when 

 grown as " Columnar Tree ;" summer and winter pruned, and restricted at the roots ; they form perfect ropes 

 of delicious fruit. See "Fruit Trees for Villa Gardens " in Cultural Notes, 1/0 post free. 



FRENCH MIRABELLE PLUMS. 

 These succeed in sheltered spots, or near the sea, and bear well. The fruit has long stalks, ripeDS early, 

 and is known as the Cherry Plum. We have grafted plants of 



The Purple-leaved, Yellow and red variety. Standards, 2/6 ; Dwarfs, 1/6 each. 

 "Well worth a wall for their earliness, or a situation in shrubbery for early blossom. 



JAPAN MIRABELLES (New Varieties). 



Burbank, new, fruit large and early, freely produced 

 on Pot Trees (5/0) in Orchard House. Maidens, 

 2/6. 



Botan, dark red, fine bearer. 



Japanese, or Satsuma. 



Masu, round, of rich gage flavour. 



No. 27. — Shropshire Damson 

 (or Michaelmas Plum) . 



BULLACE AND DAMSONS. 



In season September and October, all black except the Bullaces. Standards, 

 Half -Standards and Pyramids. Same price as Plums. 



Note. — Those marked * are recommended for Market Culture, and are 

 worthy of extensive cultivation. Damsons are recommended for the outsides 

 of plantations to form a shelter for choicer Plums or orchard fruits. 



Blue Prolific Damson . 



•Bullace, Shepherd's 



•Damson, Bradley's King . . 



•Damson, Cheshire, Shropshire 

 Prune, or Michaelmas Plum 



•Damson, Fableigh Peolifio, 



Kent Cluster or Chittenden 



•Damson, Frogmore . . 



•Damson, Hereford Prune 



Damson, Rivers' early . . 

 Damson, White 



Forms beautiful Cordons and Garden Trees, bears most 



profusely and has a rich bloom, ripening in Angust ; the 



crop lasts for two or three weeks. A first early Damson; 



rich agreeable flavour. 

 Large greenish round kind; rich for autumn tarts and 



preserves. 

 Juicy, brisk sweet flavour ; an early and immense bearer ; 



late ; delicious cooked, and worthy of the dessert. 



Gxtildfoed. — " Bradley's is wonderful and beats all the 



Damsons." The best kind. 

 A large kind, with oval fruit, growth upright; fine late 



variety ; as there is a great confusion as to the exact 



name we give a characteristic figure (No. 27). 

 An astonishing bearer, fruit produced in clusters ; fine for 



preserving, and a very lucrative market sort. 

 A distinct grower and a valuable fruit, as sweet as a Green 



Gage, and a good cropper ; early. 

 A long fruited kind, with small foliage ; tree of slender 



upright growth. 

 A valuable summer fruit, of fine quality. 

 White Bullace of some ; an excellent table fruit in October. 



