EEPOET ON PLOIS AT CHISWICK, 1901. 



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yellow, covered with minute red dots ; shallow suture ; stalk h inch long, 

 set in a small cavity ; slightly clingstone ; inoderate crop ; foliage large ; 

 glands of medium size; habit bushy, compact, and moderately vigorous ; 

 shoots smooth. A very rich-flavoured dessert variety and worthy of space 

 on a wall. Raised at Bryanston Park, Blandford. Ready September 12. 



17. Bush Plum (Bunyard). — Fruit small, deep round, dark purple, 

 covered with minute brown dots ; very shallow suture ; stalk | inch long, 

 deeply inserted ; freestone ; heavy crop ; foliage of medium size with large 

 glands ; habit erect, compact, and vigorous ; shoots downy. A free- 

 bearing late cooking variety of excellent flavour. It was found in a hedge 

 fit Bobbing, near Sittingbourne, in 1836, and is also known as ' Kentish 

 Bush.' Ready September 12. 



18. Cocket Pere (Rivers). — Fruit large, oval, yellow, slightly flushed 

 Avith red on the exposed side, and covered with minute brown dots ; 

 shallow suture ; stalk J inch long, deeply inserted ; clingstone ; light 

 crop ; foliage of medium size, w^ith large glands, usually on the petiole ; 

 habit diffuse and vigorous ; shoots downy. This is a cooking variety of 

 no special merit. Ready August 20. 



19. Coe's Late Red (Fraser). — Fruit small, round, dark red, covered 

 with small brown dots and a purple bloom ; shallow suture ; stalk | inch 

 long, in a small cavity ; freestone ; heavy crop ; foliage and glands small ; 

 habit bushy, compact, and moderately vigorous ; shoots downy. A very 

 useful late cooking Plum. Ready September 28. 



20. 21. Coe's Golden Drop (Lane, Fraser). — Fruit large, oval, with a 

 distinct neck at the stalk, pale yellow, flaked with green, and spotted with 

 red on the exposed side ; stalk 1 inch long, inserted in a projecting point 

 or neck ; clingstone ; heavy crop ; foliage of moderate size ; glands large ; 

 habit bushy, compact, and vigorous ; shoots smooth. This well-knoT\Ti 

 delicious late dessert Plum is occasionally a good bearer on bush trees ; 

 on walls it is a most reliable variety. Raised by Mt. Jervaise Coe, Bury 

 St. Edmunds, at the end of the eighteenth century. Ready September 13. 



22. Cox's Emperor (Lane). — Fruit large, deep round, inclining to oval, 

 dark red, covered Avith minute brown dots ; shallow suture ; stalk very 

 thick and i inch long, deeply inserted ; slightly clingstone ; good crop ; 

 foliage large ; glands medium to large ; habit erect, compact, and 

 vigorous ; shoots downy. This variety is better known in some parts of 

 the country as ' Denbigh Seedling,' and is a very good free-bearing Plum 

 that always cooks well. Ready August 22. 



23. Curlew (Fraser). — Fruit large, oval, deep purple ; stalk J inch 

 long, rather deeply inserted, and having a deep suture ; clingstone ; very 

 heavy crop ; foliage and glands large ; habit erect and vigorous ; shoots 

 smooth. An early free-cropping cooking variety, raised by the late Mr. 

 Francis Rivers, of Sawbridge worth. Ready August 9. 



24. D'Agen (Fraser). — A Japanese variety that is a complete failure 

 at Chiswick. The growth is cut back annually by the frost, and the tree 

 never bears any fruit. 



25. Decaisne (Rivers). — Fruit large, oval, pale yellow, spotted with 

 paler dots, and lightly flushed with red on the exposed side ; very shallow 

 suture ; stalk | inch long and deeply inserted ; clingstone ; light crop ; 

 foliage of medium size, with small glands ; habit compact, and weak 



