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THE MINIATUEE FEUIT &AIIDEN 



gage seems to grow more freely on the sloe tlian any- 

 other sort. I have a fine vigorous bush, now about fifteen 

 years old, growing in the white marly clay, with chalk- 

 stones, peculiar to some part of Essex and Hertford- 

 shire. The sloe seems to delight in this soil so inimical 

 to most kinds of fruit trees. My greengage plum is 

 almost vigorous in its growth ; and what appears strange 

 is, that the stock seems to keep pace with the graft 

 — there is scarcely any swelling at the junction. The 

 root of the tree has not been touched, and it appears to 

 have gone deeply into the solid white clay. The plum 

 on the sloe is easily arrested in its growth by root- 

 pruning. The following sorts are well adapted for 

 pyramids and walls with west, north-west, or south-east 

 aspects. 



HARDY DESSERT PLUMS ADAPTED KOE PYRAMIDS 



In season from July to the end of October. Placed in the 

 order of their ripening. 



Early Favourite 



Early Transparent Gage 



De Montfort 



OuUins' Golden Gage 



Denniston's Superb 



Greengage 



Jefierson 



Kirk's 



McLaughlin's 



Transparent Gage 



Purple Gage 

 Guthrie's Late Green 

 Bryanstone Gage 

 Eeine Claude de Bavay 

 Reine Claude de Comte 



Hatthems 

 Monarch 



Late Transparent 

 Coe's Golden Drop 

 Grand Duke 



