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 . 362 THE PLUM. Green Gage. JBruyn Gage,Bradford Green Gage. New Green Gage, Late Green Gage, Isle worth Green Gage,Burgnon Gage. 0/ some • English gardens. Lang. Lind. Thomp. Reine Claude,Grosse Reine Claude,Grosse Reine,Damas Vert,Sucrin Yert,Vert Bonne,Abricot Vert,Daupliine, of The Green Gage is universally admitted
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 . 362 THE PLUM. Green Gage. JBruyn Gage,Bradford Green Gage. New Green Gage, Late Green Gage, Isle worth Green Gage,Burgnon Gage. 0/ some • English gardens. Lang. Lind. Thomp. Reine Claude,Grosse Reine Claude,Grosse Reine,Damas Vert,Sucrin Yert,Vert Bonne,Abricot Vert,Daupliine, of The Green Gage is universally admitted to hold the first rankin flavour among all plums, and is everywhere highly France, this variety is generally known as the Reine Claude,having, it is said, been introducedinto that country by Queen Claude,wife of Francis I. During the lastcentury, an English family by thename of Gage^ obtained a numberof fruit trees among the monks ofChartreuse, near Paris. Among themAvas a tree of this plum, which, hav-ing lost its name, was called by thegardener the Green Gage. It is pro-nounced, by Lindley, the best plumin England, and we must admit thatwe have no superior to it here. Green Gage. The Green Gage is a very short jointed, slow-growing tree, ofspreading and rather dwai-fish habit. It is an abundant andpretty regular bearer, though the fruit is a little liable to crackupon the tree in wet seasons. Branches smooth. Buds with large shoulders. Fruit round,rather small, seldom of medium size. Suture faintly marked,but extending from the stal
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