. 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. £he Im/peratrice. Blue Imperatrice. Thomp. P. Mag. foipfiratrlce. I/ind. Mill Violette. V6ritable Impfiratrioe. Imperatrice Violette. 0. Duh. The true Blue Imperatrice if an admirable plum, one of the finest of the late plums, hanging for a long time on the tree, and may be kept in the fruit room a considerable period after beiiig
. 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. £he Im/peratrice. Blue Imperatrice. Thomp. P. Mag. foipfiratrlce. I/ind. Mill Violette. V6ritable Impfiratrioe. Imperatrice Violette. 0. Duh. The true Blue Imperatrice if an admirable plum, one of the finest of the late plums, hanging for a long time on the tree, and may be kept in the fruit room a considerable period after beiiig gathered. It is rich, sugary and excellent. The branches are long, smooth, and slender, and the smaller twigs start out at nearly right angles with the main branches. Fruit of medium size, obovate, tapering most towards the stalk. Stalk nearly an inch long, set in a slight hollow. Skin deep purpled, covered with a thick blue bloom. Flesh greenish-yellow, prettj firm, rather dry, but quite ricn ' and sugary, adhering closely to the stone. Ripens in October, and will uv .^, in sheltered situations, till the middle of November. Blebcker's Gage. Man. German Gage. A fruit of the first quality, and the most popular plum in the northern and western portion of this state, .^eing not only excel- lent, but remarkably hardy, and a good and regular bearer. It was raised by the lateMraBleecker, of Albany, about 30 , from a prune pit given her bv the Rev. Mr. Dull, of Kingston, N. Y., which he received from Germany., The ofiginal tree still stands in her garden. It ripens the last of August, from a week to'two weeks later than our Yellow Gage. Branches downy. FruiJ of medium size, roundish-oval, very regular. Su- ture scarcely perceptible. Stalk quite long, an inch or more, straight and pretty stout, downy. Bleecker's Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these
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