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KNIGHT'S GEEEN BRYISG {Large Grem Drying).— Fmit, large; 

 round, and marked with a shallow suture. Skin, greenish yellow, and 

 covered with thin white bloom. Flesh, yellowish, firm, not very juicy, 

 sugary, and richly flavoured when highly ripened; adhering to the 

 stone. 



A dessert plum ; ripe in the middle and end of September, and 

 succeeds best against a wall. Shoots, smooth. 



Knight's No. 6. See IcJcworth Imperatrice. 



LAFAYETTE.— Fruit, above medium size; oval. Skin, dark 

 purple, covered with a dense bloom. Flesh, juicy, rich, and of 

 excellent flavour, separating from the stone. 



Eipe in the end of September. Shoots, smooth. 



Large Green Drying. See Knight's Green Drying. 



LARGE WHITE DAMASK {Damm Blanc; Gros Damas Blanc; 

 Damas Blanc Hdtif Gros ; Damas Blanc tres Hatif). — Fruit, rather 

 below medium size ; roundish, and shghtly elongated, and swollen on 

 one side of the suture. Skin, membranous, greenish yellow, covered 

 with white bloom. Stalk, half an inch long, stout, and set in a small 

 cavity. Flesh, rather sweet, and pleasantly flavoured. 



Suitable either for dessert or culinary purposes, and is one of the 

 best of those varieties known by the name of Damas. The young 

 shoots are smooth. 



LATE GKEEN GAGE {B^ne Claude d' October; Bdne Clauds 

 Tardive). — ^Fruit, of the same shape but smaller than the Green Gage. 

 Skin, greenish yellow, covered with thin white bloom. Stalk, stout, 

 three-quarters of an inch long. Flesh, green, juicy, rich, and sugary, 

 separating from the stone. 



A dessert plum ; ripe in the end of September and beginning of 

 October. Shoots, smooth. 



LATE RIVERS.— Fruit, about the size of the Purple Gage, and like 

 it in every respect of shape and colour ; marked with a slight suture. 

 Stalk, an inch or more long, very slender. Flesh, quite apricot yellow, 

 rich, sweet, sugary, and of very fine flavour, adhering to the stone. 



This is a seedling of Mr. Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth, which fruited 

 for the first time in 1865. It is by far the richest flavoured late plum, 

 and ripens in the end of October and beginning of November. Shoots, 

 smooth. 



Lawrence Gage. See Lawrence's Favourite. 



LAWRENCE'S FAVOURITE {Lawrence Gage).— Yxmi, large; 

 round, and flattened at both ends. Skin, dull yellowish green, streaked 

 with darker green on the side exposed to the sun, veined with brown, 

 and covered all over with thin grey bloom. Stalk, half an inch long, 

 inserted in a narrow cavity. Flesh, greenish, tender, melting, and 



