Identifier: gardenersassista04thom (find matches)
Title: The gardener's assistant; a practical and scientific exposition of the art of gardening in all its branches
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Thompson, Robert, 1798-1869 Watson, William, 1858-1925
Subjects: Gardening Horticulture
Publisher: London : The Gresham Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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h bloom, darkest on the side exposed to thesun; flesh yellow, firm, juicy, and sweet. Is a great bearer,and makes a good cordon for a wall. Dennistons Superb.—Dessert. Mid-August. Fruitlarge, roundish, sutured, bright golden-yellow when fullyexposed to the sun, and ripened on a wall or fence; fleshyellow, firm, juicy, with a rich Gage-like flavour. Doeswell in any form, and is particularly prolific as a bush orcordon. Denvers Victoria.—Culinary and Dessert. Late Sep-tember. Fruit large, oval, red, with a thin light bloom;flesh yellowish, parting freely from the stone, moderatelyjuicy, flavour agreeable. An excellent all-round Plum; most prolific bearer as a standard, the branches oftenrequiring support. Diamond.—Culinary. Mid - September. Fruit verylarge, oval, deep-purple; flesh yellowish, coarse, juicy,and acid. A very vigorous grower and a good bearer.Does well as a bush. Early Orleans (Wilmots).—Culinary. Mid-August.Fruit similar to Orleans, but of a somewhat deeper violet
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Fig. 954.—Plums. Early Prolific (Rivers). Nat. size. colour, and ripening a fortnight earlier. An excellentbearer, highly deserving of cultivation. Early Prolific (Rivers) (fig. 954).—Dessert. Late July.Fruit medium, roundish, dark-purple, with a thin bloom;flesh yellow, juicy, sweet, agreeably flavoured. The bestearly Plum, largely grown for market. The tree is hardy,and bears most profusely either as a standard, bush, ortrained against a wall. Early Transparent Gage. — Dessert. Early August.Fruit large, roundish and flattened, yellow, mottled withred; flesh firm, juicy, and as richly flavoured as the GreenGage. A seedling from Transparent Gage, and is one ofthe most delicious of early Plums. Does best against awall. Golden Esperen (Drap dOr dEsperen).—Dessert. LateAugust or September. Fruit large, roundish, oval,yellow, with crimson spots on one side; flesh yellowish,separating easily from the stone, juicy, with a rich sugaryflavour. Golden Transparent.—Dessert. Late Septe

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