Boddaert’s Green Gage 1, 3. Boddart’s Green Gage 2. Boddaert’s Reine Claude 4. _Boddaert’s Green Gage_ 4, 6. _Reine-Claude de Boddaert_ 4. _Reine-Claude Boddaert_ 1, 3, 4. Reine-Claude von Boddaert 4. Boddaert has much to commend it, the fruit being surpassed by that of but few other plums of its type—that of the Reine Claude. The plums are large, attractive and of very good quality. Since the variety has been known so long it must be that the tree has some fatal defect; otherwise it would be more largely grown. Boddaert is probably a Reine Claude seedling and is of foreign origin, the details of its early history not being known. Downing, in 1876, first mentioned the variety in America; the following year it was placed on the fruit list in the American Pomological Society catalog. Tree large, medium in vigor, upright-spreading, open-topped, productive; trunk rough; branches smooth, except for a few, raised lenticels; branchlets of medium thickness, brash, thinly pubescent; leaves oval, two and one-quarter inches wide, four inches long, thick and leathery; upper surface dark green, rugose; margin crenate, with small dark glands; petiole pubescent, thick, tinged red, usually with two globose glands. Fruit mid-season; about one and one-half inches in diameter, roundish-ovate, strongly compressed, yellow, mottled with green before full maturity, overspread with thin bloom; stem thickly pubescent; flesh light yellow, dry, meaty, tender, sweet; good in quality; stone semi-free or free, seven-eighths inch by five-eighths inch in size, oval or ovate, turgid, with pitted surfaces. BRADSHAW [Illustration: BRADSHAW] _Prunus domestica_ =1.= _Mag. Hort._ =12=:341. 1846. =2.= _Horticulturist_ =10=:15, 253. 1855. =3.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._ 190, 214. 1856. =4.= _Cultivator_ =8=:25 fig. 1860. =5.= Mas _Pom. Gen._ =2=:3, fig. 2. 1873. =6.= _Mich. Pom. Soc. Rpt._ 303. 1878. =7.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._ 61, 118. 1883. =8.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 709. 1884. =9.= _Rural N. Y._ =44=:103. 1885. =10.= _Me. Pom. Soc. Rpt._ 130. 1888. =11.= _Ibid._ 144. 1889. =12.= Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 434. 1889. =13.= _Mich. Sta. Bul._ =103=:32, 33, fig. 6. 1894. =14.= _Guide Prat._ 157, 359. 1895. =15.= _Cornell Sta. Bul._ =131=:182. 1897. =16.= _Mich. Sta. Bul._ =169=:242, 244. 1899. =17.= _W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt._ =44=:91. 1899. =18.= Thompson _Gard. Ass’t_ =4=:158. 1901. =19.= Waugh _Plum Cult._ 97. 1901. =20.= _Ont. Fruit Exp. Sta. Rpt._ 16, 17 fig. 1902. =21.= _Va. Sta. Bul._ =134=:40. 1902. =22.= _Can. Exp. Farm Bul._ =43=:33. 1903. =23.= _Ohio Sta. Bul._ =162=:239, 254, 255, 256. 1905.