Tree large, vigorous, spreading, fairly productive; branches numerous, covered with many fruit-spurs; branchlets twiggy, marked with scarf-skin; leaf-buds large, very free, broad at the base; leaves folded backward, obovate, one and three-quarters inches wide, three and one-half inches long, thick, rugose, glabrous except along the deeply and widely grooved midrib; petiole one inch long, tinged red, glandless or with from one to three globose glands; blooming season intermediate in time and length; flowers appearing after the leaves, one inch across, singly or in threes. Fruit rather late, season short to medium in length; large, slightly obovate, purplish-red, darker on the sunny side, mottled, overspread with thick bloom; flesh greenish-yellow, fibrous, rather tender, sweet, agreeable in flavor; good to very good; stone clinging, one inch by five-eighths inch in size, irregular-oval, flattened, obliquely but bluntly contracted at the base, with pitted surfaces; ventral suture narrow, prominent, often distinctly winged. IMPERIAL GAGE [Illustration: IMPERIAL GAGE] _Prunus domestica_ =1.= _Am. Gard. Cal._ 588. 1806. =2.= Prince _Treat. Hort._ 25, 26. 1828. =3.= _Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat._ 147, 148. 1831. =4.= Prince _Pom. Man._ =2=:56. 1832. =5.= Kenrick _Am. Orch._ 209. 1835. =6.= _Mag. Hort._ =6=:123. 1840. =7.= _Cultivator_ =10=:167 fig. 1843. =8.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 278 fig. 107. 1845. =9.= Floy-Lindley _Guide Orch. Gard._ 302, 383. 1846. =10.= _N. Y. Agr. Soc. Rpt._ 343 fig. 1847. =11.= Thomas _Am. Fruit Cult._ 325, 326 fig. 254. 1849. =12.= _Mag. Hort._ =16=:454. 1850. =13.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 54. 1852. =14.= Elliott _Fr. Book_ 411. 1854. =15.= _U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt._ 148, Pl. 5 fig. 1. 1864. =16.= Barry _Fr. Garden_ 413. 1883. =17.= Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 443. 1889. =18.= Wickson _Cal. Fruits_ 355. 1891. =19.= _Mich. Sta. Bul._ =103=:34. 1894. =20.= _Guide Prat._ 154, 364. 1895. =21.= _Cornell Sta. Bul._ =131=:187. 1897. =22.= _Va. Sta. Bul._ =134=:42. 1902. =23.= _Ohio Sta. Bul._ =162=:239, 254, 255. 1905.