_Bleecker’s_ 11. Bleecker’s German Gage 1. _Bleecker’s German Gage_ 2. Bleecker’s Gage 2, 4, 5, 6, 7. _Bleecker’s Gage_ 9, 10, 11, 12. Bleeker’s Gage 3. _Blucher’s Gage_ 6. Bleecker’s Yellow 7. _Bleeker’s_ 10. _Bleecker’s Yellow Gage_ 7, 8, 11. _Bleecker’s Gage_ 8. Bleeker’s Yellow 9. _Bleeker’s Gelbe Zwetsche_ 11. Bleeker’s Gelbe Zwetsche 10. _Bleeker’s Yellow Gage_ 9, 10. _Bleeker’s Gelbe Reine-Claude_ 10. _Bleeker’s Gelbe Renklode_ 11. _Bleeker’s Yellow_ 10. _German Gage_ 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11. _Jaune de Bleeker_ 10, 11. _Reine-Claude de Bleeker_ 10. Reine-Claude de Bleecker 8, 11. Just why this old and one time popular plum is now so seldom grown cannot be said. It is a delicious dessert plum of the Reine Claude group, much like Yellow Gage but distinguished from it by a longer and stouter stalk. Its tree-characters in New York are good and the fruit in all the qualities that make plums desirable is as good as that of most of its class. The variety originated with a Mrs. Bleeker of Albany, New York, about 1810 from a pit given her by Rev. Mr. Dull of Kingston, New York. This stone had come from Germany and was thought to have been that of a German prune but this is probably an error as the seedlings of that variety come true or nearly so. Bleeker was listed in the catalogs of the American Pomological Society from 1852 to 1897. Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, open-topped, productive; trunk and branches thick and covered with rough bark; branches slightly pubescent; leaves two and one-quarter inches wide, four inches long, oval, stiff; upper surface somewhat rugose; margin serrate; petiole five-eighths inch long, thick, tinged red, with from two to three glands usually on the stalk. Fruit early; nearly one and one-half inches in diameter, roundish-oval, greenish-yellow, striped and splashed with green becoming golden-yellow at full maturity, overspread with thin bloom; flesh golden-yellow, dry, coarse, firm, sweet, mild; of good quality; stone semi-clinging, one inch by five-eighths inch in size, obovate, acute at the apex, medium turgid, with pitted surfaces. BLUE PERDRIGON _Prunus domestica_ =1.= Parkinson _Par. Ter._ 576. 1629. =2.= Rea _Flora_ 208. 1676. =3.= Quintinye _Com. Gard._ 67, 68, 69, 1699. =4.= Langley _Pomona_ 92, Pl. 23 fig. 4. 1729. =5.= Duhamel _Trait. Arb. Fr._ =2=:85. 1768. =6.= Prince _Pom. Man._ =2=:66. 1832. =7.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 290. 1845. =8.= Floy-Lindley _Guide Orch. Gard._ 280, 293, 383. 1846. =9.= _U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt._ 287. 1853. =10.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 687. 1884. =11.= Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 452. 1889. =12.= _Guide Prat._ 154, 361. 1895.