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Identifier: fruitsofamericac00hove (find matches)
Title: The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Hovey, C. M. (Charles Mason), 1810-1887
Subjects: Fruit Fruit
Publisher: Boston : C.C. Little and J. Brown and Hovey
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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THE GOES GOILEF DPlOP FUIR Trnxts of Amerce i, J^late ¥ Drawn frcuL jrahirt; S Cijoxao ixli^ IH V^jSi.irr THE COES GOLDEN DROP PLUM. Goes Golden Drop. Hort. See. Catalogue, 3d Ed. 1842. Coes, Pomological Magazine, vol. ii. p. 57. Coes Imperial, \ Golden Drop, New Golden Drop, ^-. ^ ^ . , „. t^, .^,^ „ ,, y Hort. Soc. Catalogue, 3d Ed. 1842. 13uRY Seedling, ° Fairs Golden Drop, Golden Gage, / King of Plums, of some Collections. Waterloo, of some French Collections. Coes Golden Drop is one of the most de-licious of all plums. Nearly approaching theWashington in size,—equalling the Green Gagein the lusciousness of its juice,—and coming insome time after both of these varieties are gone,it may be justly ranked as one of the best kindsyet produced, and indispensable to even the verysmallest collection of plums. Coes Golden Drop was raised from seed, up-wards of forty years ago, by Mr. Jervase Coe, amarket-gardener, at Bury St. Edmunds, in Suffolk, near London. Itoriginated from a
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