. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. PLU PLU from a family of the name of Gage who obtained it in France, where it is popu- larly termed the Reine Claude, (or Queen Claude,) after the wife of Francis I. Those qualified to give an opinion on the subject, have declared it to be the best plum known in England. The size is below medium. Skin green, inclining to yellow when fully ripe, and occasionally marbled with red. Ripe middle of August. Fig. Jefferson. (Fig. 135.) This excel- lent variety is the product of the late Judge Buel of Albany, so long and so favourably associated wit
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. PLU PLU from a family of the name of Gage who obtained it in France, where it is popu- larly termed the Reine Claude, (or Queen Claude,) after the wife of Francis I. Those qualified to give an opinion on the subject, have declared it to be the best plum known in England. The size is below medium. Skin green, inclining to yellow when fully ripe, and occasionally marbled with red. Ripe middle of August. Fig. Jefferson. (Fig. 135.) This excel- lent variety is the product of the late Judge Buel of Albany, so long and so favourably associated with the " Culti- ; Mr. Downing, whose opinion has great weight with us, says, if he were asked which he thought the most desirable and the most beautiful of all dessert plums, he should undoubtedly give the name of this new variety. He thinks it, when fully ripe, nearly if not quite equal in flavour to the Green Gage —"it is as large as the Washington, more richly and deeply coloured, being dark yellow, uniformly and handsomely marked with a fine ruddy cheek. It is about ten days or a fortnight later than the Washington, ripening the last of Au- gust, when ithas the rare quality of hang- ing long on the tree, gradually improv- ing in ;—"Fruits of ; Magnum Bonum, {Yellow Egg.) (Fig. 136.) These are the two popular names for a variety very generally cultivated in France and England, and known to a considerable extent in the gardens of our sea-board. It is an attractive variety, and though by no means equal in point of quality to many less prepossessing, is nevertheless in high repute. Skin yellow. Flesh closely united to the stone, sub-acid until dead ripe, when the flavour is highest. It is an excel- lent preserving plum—its large size adding to its merit in that particular. Propagation by Seed.—This mode is adopted for raising stocks and new varieties. For the latter purpose cross- impregnation has been successively purs
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