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THE FBUIT MANUAL. 



THE BEST DESSEET PLUMS, 

 ARRANGED IN THEIR ORDER OF RIPENINCJ. 



July. 

 Early Mirabelle 

 Early Green Gage 

 July Green Gage 

 St. Etienne 



August. 

 Peach 



Rivers' Early Apricot 

 Royale Hative 

 De Montfort 

 OuUins Golden 

 Mirabelle Petite 

 Perdrigon Violet Hatif 

 Royale 



Royale de Tours 

 Yellow Imperatrice 

 Drap d'Or 

 Denniston's Superb 



Maramelone 

 Green Gage 

 Golden Esperen 

 Hulings' Superb 

 Bryan ston Gage 

 M'Laughlin 

 Eugene Fiirst 



September. 

 Van Mons' Red 

 Lawrence Gage 

 Purple Gage 

 Transparent Gage 

 Woolston Black 

 Jefferson 

 Mann's Imperial 

 Kirke's 



Abricotee de Brannan 

 Angelina Burdett 



Washington 



Columbia 



Jodoigne Green Gage 



Lawson's Golden 



Coe's Golden Drop 



Cooper's Large 



Guthrie's Late Green 



Liegel's Apricot 



Topaz 



Late Green Gage 



October. 

 Nouvelle de Dorelle 

 Reine Claude de Bavay 

 Imperiale de Milan 

 Yellow Damask 

 Blue Imperatrice 

 Ickworth Imperatrice 

 Late Rivers 



QUINCES. 



APPLE-SHAPED. — Fruit, large, roundish, and very similar in 

 shape to an apple. The skin is of a fine golden yellow colour when 

 ripe ; and the flavour of the flesh when stewed is very excellent. 



PEAK-SHAPED. — This is the variety which is most commonly 

 grown, and is very often met with in shrubberies as an ornamental 

 tree. The fruit, as the name implies, is shaped like a pear, tapering 

 to the stalk. The skin is yellow and somewhat wooUy. The flesh is 

 dry, woolly, and not so succulent as the former, although it is, perhaps, 

 more cultivated than that variety. 



POKTUGAL. — This is a superior variety to either of the above, the 

 fruit being much milder in flavour and better adapted for marmalade 

 and stewing. The tree is a much more luxuriant grower, but does not 

 bear freely, and hence its cultivation is not so general as is that of the 

 others. The fruit has the property of changing to a red colour when 

 cooked. 



