. The gardener's assistant; a practical and scientific exposition of the art of gardening in all its branches. e Evesham district for the mar-kets of Birmingham and other large towns. Ponds Seedling (fig. 957).—Culinary. very large, handsome, oval, dark-red speckled withgray, with a thin bluish bloom; flesh amber, juicy, with abrisk flavour. A valuable kitchen Plum, much grownfor market A hardy and prolific variety in the open. Primate (fig. 958).—Culinary. Late Octo-ber. Fruit large, pur-plish-red, with thinbloom; flesh sweet,juicy, parting fromthe stone. The fruithangs we
. The gardener's assistant; a practical and scientific exposition of the art of gardening in all its branches. e Evesham district for the mar-kets of Birmingham and other large towns. Ponds Seedling (fig. 957).—Culinary. very large, handsome, oval, dark-red speckled withgray, with a thin bluish bloom; flesh amber, juicy, with abrisk flavour. A valuable kitchen Plum, much grownfor market A hardy and prolific variety in the open. Primate (fig. 958).—Culinary. Late Octo-ber. Fruit large, pur-plish-red, with thinbloom; flesh sweet,juicy, parting fromthe stone. The fruithangs well after at-taining maturity. Anew variety of excel-lent quality. Prince Englebert.—Dessert and August-Septem-ber. Fruit very largeand oval, deep-purple,with minute reddishdots and a dense-graybloom; flesh yellow,juicy, rich, and hardy variety, veryprolific when grown asa standard. Prince of Wales.—Culinary. Late Au-gust-September. Fruit resembling Orleans, but differsin having smooth instead of downy shoots. The tree isvigorous and a great bearer, but so tender and liable to. Fig. 957.—Plum. Ponds Seedlins
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