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other plums; is less liable to silver leaf 

 than other plums. Is very self-fertile. 

 Flowers mid-season. Kipe mid to end 

 Aug 



Pershore Purple or Martin's Purple 

 (sometimes, but incorrectly, called Purple 

 Egg) was raised in 1877 by Walter 

 Martin, a smallholder at Pershore, Wor- 

 cestershire, from the Purple Gage polli- 

 nated with Rivers' Early Prolific pollen. 

 The tree from which the fruit and stone 

 was raised is still in Pershore. Is very 

 self-fertile. Propagates by suckers or by 

 grafting. Blossoms mid^season; ripe Aug. 



Czar.— Raised by Mr. Thomas Rivers, 

 of Sawbridgeworth, from Prince Engle- 

 bert, fertilised by Early Prolific pollen, 

 fruited first in 1874, the year the Emparor 

 of Russia visited England. Very self-fer- 

 tile. Blossoms mid-season. C. early Aug. 



Monarch — Raised by Thomas Rivers, 

 from a seedling of Autumn Compote ; 

 introduced to commerce in 1885. Popular 

 in England and America. Self-fertile. 

 Flowers early. D. or C. end Sept. and 

 Oct. 



Rivers' Early Prolific or Early Rivers — 

 Raised by Mr. Thomas, from Precoce de 

 Tours, about 1834. Only occasionally self- 

 fertile — say one flower in 100. Flowers 

 early. C. end July. 



Grand Duke. — Raised by Mr. Thomas 

 Rivers from Autumn Compote; sent out 

 in 1876. Flowers very early; is late to 

 ripen. The favourite late-shipping plum 

 of New York. Self-sterile. 



Bush. — A great favourite in Kent; found 

 in a hedge at Bobin, near Sittingbourne, 

 in 1836, and propagated by Mr. Fair. 

 Self-fertile. Ripe mid-Oct. 



Black Diamond. — Found in a hedge by 

 a farm labourer, named Diamond, about 

 1830 ; propagated in the nursery of Mr. 

 Hooker, of Brenchley, Kent. Self-sterile. 

 Blossoms early. Ripe early Sept. 



Kirke's Blue. — Originated on Mr. Pou- 

 part's market garden, at Brompton, pro- 



pagated by Joseph Kirke, nurseryman, 

 about 1830. Repays root pruning. Self- 

 sterile. Blossoms mid-season. D, mid- 

 Sept. 



Pond's Seedling. — Obtained from seed 

 by Mr. Pond, an amateur fruit-grower in 

 England, before 1830. Called also Font- 

 hill. Self-sterile. Blossoms late : ripe 

 mid-Sept. 



President.. — Raised by Messrs. Rivers in 

 1901. Blossoms late. C. Oct. Partly 

 self-fertile. 



Early Orleans. — Of old, but unknown, 

 origin; the Prune du roi of the French. 

 Partly self-fertile. Blossoms mid-season; 

 ripf beginning and middle Aug. 



Belle de Louvain. — Found in the nur- 

 sery of Van Mons, at Louvain, in Belgium, 

 about 1840. Slightly self-fertile. Blossoms 

 late; blossom tender to frost. C. end Aug. 



Stint.— Partly self-fertile. 



Sultan. — Raised by Mr. Rivers in 1871, 

 from Belle de Septembre. Self-sterile. 

 Blossoms late ; ripe mid- Aug. 



Prince Englebert. — Obtained from seed 

 of Date Prune, by Scheidweiler, Professor 

 of Botany at Ghent, Belgium. Self-fer- 

 tile. Blossom rather late; ripe Sept. 



Wyedale. — A plum much grown m parts 

 of Yorkshire. Self-sterUe. 



Golden Transparent. — Raised by and 

 introduced by Messrs. Rivers in 1894. 

 Self-fertile. D. early Oct. 



Order of Floweeing at the Royal 

 Horticultural Society's Gardens. — 

 Early — Monarch, Jefferson, Denniston's 

 Superb, Coe's Golden Drop, President. 

 Mid — Early Rivers, Decaisne, Late 

 Orange, Comte d'Althan's Gage. Late — 

 Czar, Pond's Seedling, Transparent Gage, 

 Washington, Prince Englebert, Late 

 Transparent Gage, Stint. 



Note. — D. stands for dessert; C. for 

 cooking. 



