. The fruits and fruit trees of America : or, The culture, propagation and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally, with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . Fruit-culture; Fruit. 868 THE PLUM. Prune d'Agen. Nois. Robe de Sergent. Agen Datte. St. Maurin. Prune de Brignole, {of some.) A foreign variety of excellent quality. Tree of moderate growth ; brandies smooth, very productive. Fruit medium size, oval, slightly necked, suture small. Skin violet purple, covered with a thick bloom and numerous small dots.
. The fruits and fruit trees of America : or, The culture, propagation and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally, with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . Fruit-culture; Fruit. 868 THE PLUM. Prune d'Agen. Nois. Robe de Sergent. Agen Datte. St. Maurin. Prune de Brignole, {of some.) A foreign variety of excellent quality. Tree of moderate growth ; brandies smooth, very productive. Fruit medium size, oval, slightly necked, suture small. Skin violet purple, covered with a thick bloom and numerous small dots. Stalk nearly an inch long, a little curved, set in a small depression Flesh greenish yellow, juicy, sugary, rich, and delicious, slightly adherent to the stone. Ripens middle and last of September. Purple Gage. Lind. Pom. Mag. KMne Claude Violette. Thomp. Nbis. Die Violette Koning Claudie. SicMer. Violet Queen Claude. The Purple Gage holds the first place for high flavour among purple plums abroad. Although it is well known in France under the title of the Reine Claude Violette, as in Eng- land under that of the Purple Gage, yet its native country is not precisely determined. Branches smooth, much like those of the Green Gage. Fruit •.medium sized, shaped like the Green Gage, roundish, a little flattened. Suture shallow, but d^tinct. Stalk an inch long, Furpk Gage. rather thick, set in a narrow cavity. Skin a little thick, violeti dotted with pale yellow, and covered with 'light blue bloom- Fle^h greenish-yellow, rather firm, rich, sugary, and very high flavoured. Separates from the stone, which is oval and com- pressed. Ripens rather late, and will hang on the tree—shri- velling a little, but not cracking—all the month of Stptem Purple Favourite, This delicious fruit received its name from us some years ago. The tree from which the stock now in this country was derived, stood for pjany years (until it died of old age,) in the centre of the principal garden here, an
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