The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . rrowed,and nearly even at the edges. Ripe the last of August andbeginning of September. Wood, stout, short-jointed, and slightly downy. 6. Saint Martin Rouge. Bon Jardinier. Coes Fine Late Red. Hort. Soc. Cat. 3d Ed. Saint Martin, of some French collections. Red Saint Martin. Pom. Manual. Pninier de St. Martin. N. Duhamel. Coes Late Red. Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. This fine plum {fig- 15,) has been erroneously named, inEngland, Coes Fine Late Red,from the fact that it was broughtto noti
The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . rrowed,and nearly even at the edges. Ripe the last of August andbeginning of September. Wood, stout, short-jointed, and slightly downy. 6. Saint Martin Rouge. Bon Jardinier. Coes Fine Late Red. Hort. Soc. Cat. 3d Ed. Saint Martin, of some French collections. Red Saint Martin. Pom. Manual. Pninier de St. Martin. N. Duhamel. Coes Late Red. Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. This fine plum {fig- 15,) has been erroneously named, inEngland, Coes Fine Late Red,from the fact that it was broughtto notice by Mr. Coe, as a newseedling; but it subsequentlyproved to be the old Saint Mar-tin Rouge, of French collec-tions: instead, however, of drop-ping the new name, it has beenimproperly retained, and is de-scribed under this cognomen inthe third edition of the Cata-logue of the London Horticul-tural Society. Mr. Prince andMr. Kenrick have both retained ?Vi« t:......^„u TIT Saint Martin Rouffe. the 1- rench name, and, believ- ing this to be its proper one, we have also adopted it, not. 152 Descriptio7is of Select Varieties of Plums. wishing to give greater publicity to a palpable error of theSocietys Catalogue. The Saint Martin Rouge is a very superior late plum, muchresembling the Reine Claude both in shape, color, and size,and, like that, a high-flavored and delicious fruit, coming inabout the middle of October, when, with the exception of theGolden Drop and Frost Gage, there are no fine plums: it fre-quently hangs upon the tree till injured by frosts. Fruity medium size, about one and three quarter inches long,and one and five eighths in diameter, of roundish, regularform, with a distinct but rather shallow suture on oneside, ending in a considerably depressed point at the apex:Stem., rather long, about three quarters of an inch, slender,and inserted in a small cavity : Skin, dull purplish red, littlespotted with yellowish dots, and covered with a thin violetbloom :
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