. 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. S62 THE PLUM. Green Gage. Bruyn Gage. » Bradford Gage. Wilmot's Green Gage. New Green Gage. i—iate Green Gage. Isleworth Green Gage. Burgnon Gage. 0/ some Ertglish Lang. Lind. Thomp. Reine Claude. Grosae Reine Claude. Grosse Reine. Damas Vert. Suerin Vert. Vert Bonne. Abricot Vert. DaUphine. French The Green Gage is unive
. 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. S62 THE PLUM. Green Gage. Bruyn Gage. » Bradford Gage. Wilmot's Green Gage. New Green Gage. i—iate Green Gage. Isleworth Green Gage. Burgnon Gage. 0/ some Ertglish Lang. Lind. Thomp. Reine Claude. Grosae Reine Claude. Grosse Reine. Damas Vert. Suerin Vert. Vert Bonne. Abricot Vert. DaUphine. French The Green Gage is universally admitted to hold the first rank in flavour among all plums, and is everywhere highly esteemed. Id 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, cf preading 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 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 pate 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 var
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