. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. may be allowedto enlighten amateurs respecting its characters,alter having seen its fruit produced by a tree, forwhich we are indebted to the kindness of MessieursJamin and Durand. This plum is more oviform than round; it is lon-gitudinally marked by little violet coloured veins ona yellowish ground, sometimes accompanied by lit-tle spots of the same colour, and covered with awaxlike and scarcely ap|)arent bloom. Its fleshadheres slightly to the stone; the habit of the tree igsimilar to that of the old Reine Claude {green gage;\ i2
. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. may be allowedto enlighten amateurs respecting its characters,alter having seen its fruit produced by a tree, forwhich we are indebted to the kindness of MessieursJamin and Durand. This plum is more oviform than round; it is lon-gitudinally marked by little violet coloured veins ona yellowish ground, sometimes accompanied by lit-tle spots of the same colour, and covered with awaxlike and scarcely ap|)arent bloom. Its fleshadheres slightly to the stone; the habit of the tree igsimilar to that of the old Reine Claude {green gage;\ i2S FOREIGN NOTICES. tho wood is a littlo greyish; the branches aro vig-orous, and tho loaves uro lar;,o uiul of a beautifulgreen eolour. , , , , . , , , ««Tliis plmn, altnoui:h very trooil, is not equal tothe oUl Heine CUuule, but its chief value is the seasonof its maturity. This last year, Treat heat %ve have experieneed, it did not ripenuntirthe 2!Hh of September, a time when no fruit ofthe old Reine Claude can be found Fig. 115. Reine Claude de Eavay Plum. From the above description, it is probable thatthis variety will be an acquisition to our list of lateplums partakinir as it does,in a great degree of themerits of the old Queen Claude^ or the well knownGreen Gage. We have it among our specimentrees, but have not yet eulivated it for sale.—S. Flushing, Long Island, N. Y. April,1847. Tobacco water for Destroying Insects.—The tobacco water I have used is procured fromthe tobacco manufacturers. In the process ofpreparing tobacco for use, the dried herb is steepedfor a certain time, and the water which it has ab-sorbed, is afterwards expressed from it, into thewater in which it had been steeped. This liquoris to be purchased at eight pence or ten pence pergallon from the manufacturers, and should be ob-tained as pure possible, without adulteration. Onegallon of the liquor is stronger than any that couldbe made by steeping se
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