. The fruits and fruit trees of America;. Fruit-culture; Fruit. 876 THE PLUM. Branches long and smootK. Pniil of medium size, long-oval. Suture strongly marked, and ihe fruit larger on one of its sides. Skin pale yel- lowish-green, sometimes dull green only, in the shade. Stalk three- fourths of an inch long, inserted with scarcely any depression. Flesh green- ish-yellow, very juicy and rich, ad- heres somewhat to the stone, which is long and pointed. Last of August. 14. Ghiston's Early. A large and handsome (native ?) fruit, resembling, a good deal, the Magnum Bonum or Yellow Egg Plum, Fig. 1
. The fruits and fruit trees of America;. Fruit-culture; Fruit. 876 THE PLUM. Branches long and smootK. Pniil of medium size, long-oval. Suture strongly marked, and ihe fruit larger on one of its sides. Skin pale yel- lowish-green, sometimes dull green only, in the shade. Stalk three- fourths of an inch long, inserted with scarcely any depression. Flesh green- ish-yellow, very juicy and rich, ad- heres somewhat to the stone, which is long and pointed. Last of August. 14. Ghiston's Early. A large and handsome (native ?) fruit, resembling, a good deal, the Magnum Bonum or Yellow Egg Plum, Fig. 105. Emerald Drop, but a freestone. Branches smooth, short-jointed. Fruit large, oval, skin clear yellow, with a light bloom. Flesh*yellow, separates from the stone, of pleasant fla- vour. Middle of August. 15. Green Gage. § Lang. Lind. Brayn Gage. Bradford Ga^e, SchuyJer*s Gage ? Wilmot's Green (Jage. '\ New Green Gage. 1 of some late Green Gage. > English Isleworth Green Gage. j gardens. Burgnon Gage. J Reine Claude. Grosse Reine Claude. Grosse Reine. Daraas Vert. Sucrin Vert. Vert Bonne. Abricot Vert. Dauphine. ofvanom Frenrh gardens. The Green Gage is universally admitted to hold the first rank in flavour among all plums, and is every where highly esteemed. In 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 from the monks of Charteuse, near Paris. Among them was a tree of this plum, which, having lost its name, was called by the gardener the Green Gage. It is pronounced, by Lindley, the best plum in England, and we must ad- mit that we have no superiour to it here. Fig. 106. OremQage,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not pe
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