[NAFEX] Green Gage plum
Rosholdt
rosholdt at erols.com
Mon Nov 30 13:45:33 EST 2009
I must admit to being ignorant about the niceties of Green Gage, in
terms of taste. However, I tried some Green Gage at Vintage Virginia
Apples and was very satisfied with the fruit. So now I have a tree from
them - and great hopes. The description says the Reine Claude was
renamed by the British in 1725 and that this is an ancient Armenian
variety.
Barbara Rosholdt
Z7 Central Piedmont Virginia
Subject:[NAFEX] Green Gage plum
From:Alan Haigh <alandhaigh at gmail.com>
Date:Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:11:24 -0500
To:nafex at lists.ibiblio.org
Trees sold as Green Gage are often misidentified in the trade and I have
spent years tracking down a legitimate Reine Claude. Miller's sold me a
quantity of GG's that produced a mediocre (at best) extremely early
purple plum. I managed an orchard that had ordered over 50 "Green
Gages" from Adams County (usually a reliable source unlike Miller's IMO)
that were some kind of Japanese green plum that they claimed when I
called them was the "Japanese Green Gage". They did not make this
distinction in their catalogue.
Trees I have now are from Cummins nursery and Adams as they claim to
have the real thing now and I believe them. On the west coast I'd trust
Trees of Antiquity and Raintree to sell you the real McCoy.
Do not judge prune plums by the quality of Stanley which is generally
considered mediocre in quality but very reliable in northeastern
conditions where I grow fruit (Z6, NY). You have so many choices in the
west coast that I don't know what would be best for you. Maybe Autumn
Sweet if you want intense sugar. For an early Gage type, Oullins has
very high quality.
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