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may be properly grown on an espalier-rail, or as a dwarf 
standard. 
-The Drap d'Or is a small yellow plum of high flavor, 
ripening in the beginning of September. On a light soil 
the tree is a tolerable bearer ; but ona heavy soil it seldom 
succeeds. ‘The fruit, precedes the green-gage in ripening, 
and resembles it in quality. 
Coe’s Golden Drop is a fine large oval plum; excellent 
either for the table or for preserving. It keeps well, and 
Mr. Lindley informs us that he has eaten it exceedingly 
good twelve months after it had been gathered. It requires 
the best aspect of a wall, and will scarcely answer in a 
bleak climate. 
Reine Claude Violette, L. Hort. Cat., 232. Purple- 
Gage, Lind., p. 555.—A very high-flavored variety, resem- 
bling, color excepted, the green-gage. It succeeds on stan- 
dards, but is improved by a wall. The tree is a good bearer. 
Washington, L. Hort. Cat., 266; Amer. Orchard, 
p. 268.—Fruit rather large, roundish oval, pale yellow on 
the shaded side, and of a fine glaucous light purple on the 
exposed side; of excellent quality, little inferior to the 
green-gage. The tree is vigorous, and bears well against a 
wall, the fruit ripening about the middle of August. Being 
an early plum, it will, in favorable situations, succeed as a 
standard. It is, as the name imports, of American io 
It ought to be in every collection. 
Couper’s Large Red is a plum of large size, oval ; 
suture deeply cleft on one side; skin of a bluish glaucous 
purple on the exposed side, on the other side dull red; flesh 
firm, adhering to the stone; ripening in the beginning of 
September on a south wall, in Scotland. Although this is 
only a fruit of second quality, yet the tree, well, merits a 
place on account of its great productiveness, 
