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as the gage, though the juice is ahundant, and of a 

 very agreeable flavour. From the robust growth of 

 the young trees, they promise to make good standards, 

 and in that character are deserving the notice of the 

 market gardener. 



11. Green Gage P, — Ripens with the foregoing. 

 This is a real nonsuch plum, and so has been re- 

 garded ever since its introduction into this country. 

 It is the Great Queen Claude of the French or- 

 ehardists, and got its English name from an un- 

 labelled plant of it being received by the Gage 

 family from the Chartreuse Garden at Paris. The 

 fruit are of a round handsome shape with a slight 

 furrow, full middle size, the stalk short and thick, 

 the side next the sun mottled purple and brown, 

 and lightly powdered with a light blue bloom. The 

 pulp is green, melting, and of exceeding rich flavour, 

 nearly but not quite quitting the stone. The fruit 

 are in highest perfection before they are quite ripe. 



The tree is healthy, fit for training in any way, 

 and forms fine standards. It is a prolific bearer, 

 and more so when old than when young. When on 

 walls, the fruit should be thinned as regularly as 

 apricots are. There are some spurious sorts of the 

 green gage crept into English nurseries, which 

 should be guarded against ; and great numbers of 

 the little Queen Claude are imported from France, 

 and disposed of in this country as the true green 

 gage. But these fruit are easily detected by judges : 

 they have not that fine red-and- brown mottled cheek 

 which the true sort hav6 ; neither is the flavour 



