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THE PLUM. 
Green Gage. 
Bruyn Gage. 
Bradford Gage. 
Wilmot’s Green Gage. 
New Green Gage, of some 
Late Green Gage. English 
Isleworth Green Gage. gardens. 
Burgnon Gage. J 
Lang. Lind. Thomp. 
Reine Claude. 
Grosae Reine Claude. 
Grosse Reine. 
Damas Vert. 
Sucrin Vert. 
Vert Bonne. 
Abricot Vert. 
Dauphine. 
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French 
gardens. 
The Green Gage is universally admitted to hold the first rank 
in flavour among all plums, and is everywhere highly esteemed. 
In France, this variety is generally known as the Reine Claude, 
having, it is said, been introduced 
into that country by Queen Claude, 
wife of Francis I. During the last 
century, an English family by the 
name of Gage , obtained a number 
of fruit trees among the monks of 
Chartreuse, near Paris. Among them 
was a tree of this plum, which, hav- 
ing lost its name, was called by the 
gardener the Green Gage. It is pro- 
nounced, by Lindley, the best plum 
in England, and we must admit that 
we have no superior to it here. Green Gage. 
The Green Gage is a very short jointed, slow-growing tree, of 
spreading and rather dwarfish habit. It is an abundant and 
pretty regular bearer, though the fruit is a little liable to crack 
upon the tree in wet seasons. 
Branches smooth. Buds with large shoulders. Fruit round, 
rather small, seldom of medium size. Suture faintly marked, 
but extending from the stalk to the apex. Skin green, or yel- 
lowish-green at full maturity, when it is often a little dotted or 
marbled with red. Stalk half to three-fourths of an inch long, 
slender, very slightly inserted. Flesh pale green, exceedingly 
melting and juicy, and usually separates freely from the stone. 
Flavour, at once, sprightly and very luscious. Ripe about the 
middle of August. 
There are several seedling varieties of this plum in various 
parts of this country — but none superior or scarcely equal to 
the old. That known as the Bruyn Gage, which has been dis- 
seminated from the garden of A. Bruyn, Esq., of Kingston, N. 
Y., is only the true Reine Claude, brought by Chancellor Li- 
vingston from France. 
Howard’s Favourite. 
Raised by E. Dorr, Albany, N. Y. Tree a vigorous grower, 
continues to ripen for a long time, and the fruit adheres with 
