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Flesh: color yellow; texture somewhat juicy, moderately firm; flayor agreeable. 

 Quality: dessert good; cooking, very good; an excellent substitute for the Damson. 

 Value : market first class. 

 Season : late July to early August. 



RBINE CLAUDE. (Beine, Claude de Bavay. Green Gage). 



The Reine Claude and several varieties of the Green Gage type are of especial 

 talue for culinary purposes. For pies, sauce or canning purposes, they seem to be 

 {{rowing in demand year after year, and no collection of plums for the home garden 

 is, therefore, complete without a tree or more of this or some other variety of this 

 family. With Ontario fruit growers, the most popular Gage is the Reine Claude de 

 Bavay, commonly known among them as Reine Claude, which name is also an old 

 symonym of the Green Gage. In the catalogue of the American Pomological Society it 

 is called Bavay. The fruit of this later variety is in good demand among canners, and 

 brings a fair price in our markets. 



Okiqin : this type of plum was brought from Italy to France about the year 1500 

 by Queen Claudia, wife of Francis I., after whom it was nam-ed Reine Claudia. Later, 

 some trees were brought to England by a family named Gage, but the label on these 

 trees being lost, the gardener called them Green Gage. Hogg, the English pomologist, 

 however, tried to prove that this plum had been introduced into England before this 

 time under the name of Reine Claude, and hence arose considerable confusion of names. 





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Reine Claude. 



Tree: productive; hardy, a slow grower. 



Fruit: roundish; size medium; skin greenish, yellowing towards maturity, with 

 a thin whitish bloom and a few red dots ; stem three-quarters of an inch long, set in 

 a small, abrupt cavity ; suture traceable. 



Flesh: color pale green; texture melting and juicy; flavor rich, sweet and excel- 

 lent; pit mostly free. 



Quality: cooking or canning, best; dessert very good. 



Value : home market first class. 



Season: mid to late August. 



