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Tree large, very vigorous, upright-spreading, dense, very productive; branchlets 

 slender, with long intemodes, thickly pubescent; leaf -buds large, long; lea->'es flattened, 

 oval, intermediate in width and length; margin serrate, eglandular; petiole pubescent, 

 glandless or with from one to three globose glands usually on the stalk; flowers one 

 inch across, borne in scattering clusters, singly or in pairs; calyx-lobes thickly pubescent 

 on both surfaces. 



Fruit mid-season; one and one-half inches by one and three-eighths inches in size, 

 oval, golden-yellow, covered with thin bloom ; flesh golden-yellow, juicy, firm but tender, 

 sweet, mild; good; stone semi-free, seven-eighths inch by one-half inch in size, oval, 

 acute at the base; ventral suture usually winged; dorsal suture widely and deeply 

 grooved. 



SMALL REINE CLAUDE 



Prunus domestica 



I. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:91. 1768. 2. Kraft Pom. Aust. 39, Tab. 189 fig. 2. 1796. 3. 

 M'Mahon Am. Card. Col. 587. 1806. 4. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 147, 148, 154- 1831. 5. Prince 

 Pom. Man. 2:49. 1832. 6. Mag. Hort. 9:164. 1843. 7- Downing Fr. Trees Am. 288. 1845. 

 8. Floy-Lindley Guide Orch. Card. 284, 383. 1846. 9. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 330. 1849. i°' 

 Downing Fr. Trees Am. 913. 1869. 11. Mas Pom. Gen. 2:93. 1873. 12. Oberdieck DeM. Obst. 

 Sort. 435. 1881. 13. Hogg Fruit Man. 732. 1884. 14. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 437. 1889. 



Die kleine Konigin Claudia 2. English Yellow Gage 9, 10. English Yellow Gage 11, 14. 

 Gonne's Green Gage 6, 7, 10, 13, 14. Gonne's Green Gage 4. Kibitzenei 14. Kleine Dauphine 14. 

 Kleine Reine-Claude 12, 14. Kleine Weisse Damascene 12, 14. Kleine Reine-Claude 11. Kleine 

 Grune Reine-Claude 11, 12, 14. Little Reine Claude 5. Little Queen Claude 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 

 Little Queen Claude 8. Little Queen Claudia 3. LittU Qiieen Claudia 5. Petite Reine-Claude x. 

 II. Petite Reine-Claude 2, 5, 7, 8, 10. Petit Damas Vert 13, 14. Reine-Claude Petite Espece 14. 

 Reine-Claude Blanche Petite Espece 5, 6, 7, 10. Reine-Claude Blanche 6, 7, 10, 14. Reine-Claude 

 Petite 13, 14. Reine Claude (of some) 6. Small Green Gage 5, 7, 10, 14. Small Queen Claude $• 

 White Gage 6, 7, 10, 13, 14. White Gage 4. Yellow Gage 4, 6, 7, 13. Yellow Gage 11, 14. 



Small Reine Claude, an old variety of unknown origin, is now prob- 

 ably obsolete. Thomas and Downing described it as an English Yellow 

 Gage but it cannot be found that it is ever so called in Europe. Since 

 the variety was known in France and Austria in the latter part of the 

 Eighteenth Century it is quite certain that it originated on the continent. 

 From its name and close resemblance to the Reine Claude it is safe to 

 state that it is a seedling of that sort. It is described as follows: 



Tree of normal vigor; branches smooth; flowers small; fruit medium in size, 

 nearly spherical, truncated on the stem side and slightly on the apex; suture wide and 

 distinct, thus differing from the Reine Claude; stem medium in length; cavity shallow; 

 skin tender, yellowish-green, often splashed with red on the sunny side; flesh greenish- 

 yellow, fine, a little firm, sweet, rich and pleasant; freestone; ripens earlier than the 

 Reine Claude. 



