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which the public are not sufficiently well acquainted. Having 

 suspended, by their stalks, in a dry room, some fruit of this 

 variety which had ripened on a west wall, in October, in the 

 year 1808, it remained perfectly sound till the middle of 

 December, when it was thought by my guests and myself, 

 to be not at all inferior, either in richness or flavour, to the 

 Green Gage, or Drap d'Or Plum. I am informed by Mr. 

 Whitley, of Old Brompton, from whom I received it, that 

 it bears well on standard trees. 



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