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hairy. Flesh, firm, sweet, briskly flavoured, and separating from the 

 stone. 



A dessert plum; ripe in the middle of September. bhoots, 



smooth. 



JODOIG-NE GKEEN GAGE {Rdm Claude de Jodoigne ; BoyaU 

 de Vilvorde). — Fruit, large; round, inclining to oblate, marked on one 

 side with a shallow suture. Skin, thin, greenish at first, but becoming 

 greenish yellow as it ripens, and with a blush of red strewed with green 

 and yellowish dots on the side next the sun, the whole covered with a 

 thin bluish bloom. Stalk, over half an inch long. Flesh, whitish 

 yellow, firm, very juicy and tender, with a sugary and very rich 

 flavour. 



A large and handsome form of the old Green Gage, and possessing 

 all its merits ; ripe in the middle and end of September. Shoots, 

 smooth. 



JULY GKEEN GAGE {Rdne Claude de Bavay Haiinf).— Fruit, 

 the size and shape of the Green Gage. Skin, thin, of a fine deep 

 yellow colour, flushed with bright crimson on the side next the sun, 

 and strewed with darker crimson dots, the whole covered with a 

 deUcate white bloom. Stalk, three-quarters of an inch long, slightly 

 depressed. Flesh, deep yellow, very tender and juicy, sugary, and 

 richly flavoured, separating with difficulty from the stone. 



A first-rate and most delicious early plum, equal in all respects 

 to the Green Gage, and ripening in the end of July. Shoots, smooth. 



Keyser's Plum. See Hulings' Superb. 



KIRKE'S. — Fruit, above medium size ; round, and marked with a 

 very faint suture. Skin, dark purple, with a few deep yellow dots, and 

 covered with a dense bright blue bloom which is not easily rubbed ofi'. 

 Stalk, three-quarters of an inch long, inserted in a very deep depres- 

 sion. Flesh, greenish yellow, firm, juicy, separating freely from the 

 stone, and very richly flavoured. 



A delicious dessert plum ; ripe in the beginning and middle of Sep- 

 tember. The young shoots are smooth. The tree is hardy and 

 vigorous, and an abundant bearer, well suited either for a standard or 

 to be grown against a wall. 



It was first introduced by Joseph Kirke, a nurseryman at Brompton, near 

 London, who told me he first saw it on a fruit-stall near the Royal Exchange, and 

 that he afterwards found the trees producing the fruit were in Norfolk, whence he 

 obtained grafts and propagated it. Bat its true origin was in the grounds of Mr. 

 Poupart, a market gardener at Brompton — on the spot now occupied by the lower 

 end of Queen's Gate — and where it sprang up as a sucker from a tree which had 

 been planted to screen a building. It was given to Mr. Kirke to be propagated and 

 he sold it under the name it now bears. 



Kirke's Stoneless. See Stonehss. 



Knevett's Late Orleans. See Nelson's Victoi-y, 



