Archive image from page 238 of Cyclopedia of hardy fruits (1922). Cyclopedia of hardy fruits cyclopediaofhard00hedr Year: 1922 197. Imperial Gage. (XD and market. In selected locations. Imperial Gage is a most valuable fruit. The Princes in their nursery at Flushing, Long Island, about the year 1790, planted the pits of twenty-five quarts of the Green Gage plum, and from one of these produced Imperial Gage. Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, open-topped, hardy, very productive. Leaves obovate, 2 inches wide, 3 inches long, thick; apex pointed ; base acute ; margin crenate, with small d
Archive image from page 238 of Cyclopedia of hardy fruits (1922). Cyclopedia of hardy fruits cyclopediaofhard00hedr Year: 1922 197. Imperial Gage. (XD and market. In selected locations. Imperial Gage is a most valuable fruit. The Princes in their nursery at Flushing, Long Island, about the year 1790, planted the pits of twenty-five quarts of the Green Gage plum, and from one of these produced Imperial Gage. Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, open-topped, hardy, very productive. Leaves obovate, 2 inches wide, 3 inches long, thick; apex pointed ; base acute ; margin crenate, with small dark glands; petiole Vz inch long, thick, glandless or with 1 or 2 small, globose, yellowish- green glands. Flowers 1 inch across, white. Fruit midseason; 1 ; inches in diameter, ovate, compressed, halves equal ; cavity shallow, narrow, abrupt ; suture a line ; apex depressed; color dull greenisli-yellow, with obscure green streaks, mottled and faintly tinged red on the sunny side, with thick bloom ; dots numerous, small, grayish, obscure; stem inch long, pubescent; skin thin, tender, separating readily; flesh golden- yellow, juicy, firm, tender, sweet, mild ; good to very good; stone free, oval, flattened, with pitted surfaces, blunt at the base, very blunt at the apex. ITALIAN PRUNE. Fig. 198. P. domes- tica. Fellenbcrg. Italian Paine is grown in all of the plum regions of continental Europe; is well known in England; is third or fourth in popularity in the Atlantic states of America; is the leading plum in the Pacific Northwest, where it is chiefly used in prune-making; and is grown somewhat for prunes and for shipping green in California. The fruit is finely fla- vored, whether eaten out of hand, prepared for the table, or cured as a prune. While a little too tart to be ranked as a first-rate dessert plum, it is one of the best of the prunes for this purpose, though it must be fully ripe to be fit for dessert. In cooking, the yellow fiesh changes to a dark wine color, very
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