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LUCOMBE’S NONSUCH PLUM.
This valuable variety has been lately raised from
seed by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co. of
Exeter, by whom we were favoured with the specimen
now represented.
It is undoubtedly the nearest approach that has
yet been made on the part of a Seedling to the
famous Green Gage of the English, or Heine Claude
of the French; and although it cannot be said to
equal, in all respects, that celebrated variety, it is
nevertheless entitled to a character of very high
excellence.
It bears well as a standard, is remarkably handsome,
as it were variegated with dull yellow and
orange, and larger than the Green Gage usually is.
We consider it an important acquisition to our
varieties of Plums.
Ripens about the end of August.
W ood very like that of the Green Gage, strong,
short-jointed, smooth, brown, sprinkled in some
places with a brownish epidermis.
L eaves middle-sized, ovate, or broadly oval,
acuminate, doubly crenated, quite smooth on the
upper surface. P etioles strong, about an inch in
length.
F lowers middle-sized. P etals roundish oblong,
somewhat concave at the top.
F ruit extremely like a Green Gage Plum in
colour, but more streaked with yellow, covered with
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