_Flushing Gage_ 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 20. Flushing Gage 3, 9. Harper 22. _Imperial Gage_ 17, 20. _Imperial Green Gage_ 7. _Jenkinson’s Imperial_ 6, 14, 15. _Prince’s Gage_ 4, 12, 17. Prince’s Imperial Gage 4, 5, 6, 10. _Prinzens Kaiser Reine Claude_ 20. Prince’s Kaiser Reine-Claude 17. _Prince’s Imperial Gage_ 8, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20. _Prince’s White Gage_ 4, 12, 17. _Reine-Claude de Flushings_ 20. Reine-Claude Imperiale 20. _Reine-Claude Imperiale_ 17. _Reine-Claude Verte Imperiale_ 17. _Reine-Claude Imperiale de Prince_ 17, 20. _Reine-Claude Blanche de Boston_ 17, 20. _Reine-Claude Verte Superieure_ 20. _Superior Gage_ 9. _Superior Green Gage_ 12, 14, 15, 17, 20. Superior Green Gage? 3. _Superiour Green Gage_ 8. White Gage? 1, 2, 20. _White Gage_ 14, 15. _White Gage of Boston_ 7, 8, 11, 17. Probably there is more contradictory evidence as to the value of Imperial Gage than of any other American grown plum. It is down in some of the fruit books as being the largest of all the Reine Claude plums and in others as being too small to be desirable; in some, as being of highest quality and in others as being quite too insipid to be called a dessert fruit. These contradictions have arisen because the variety grows quite differently in different soils. The Imperial Gage is best adapted to light sandy soils, growing largest and being best in quality on such soils and making the poorest show of all on heavy clay. The illustration in _The Plums of New York_ shows it as it grows on an unsuitable soil—small, poorly colored, worthless for a money-crop and not very desirable for home use. The technical description is also based on trees grown and fruit produced on soil to which it is illy-adapted. The trees from which these fruits came are nearly perfect in habits of growth, vigorous, hardy, healthy and bearing large crops of plums—such as they are. On suitable soils the variety possesses all the qualities that constitute a fine plum, the product being adapted alike for dessert, canning, home and market. It has an especially agreeable flavor in all the various culinary preparations in which it can be used. Its capriciousness does not warrant its being largely planted but for selected locations it will prove a most valuable fruit. The Princes in their nursery at Flushing, Long Island, New York, about the year 1790, planted the pits of twenty-five quarts of the Green Gage plum and from these produced, among others, a plum which they called the White Gage. William R. Prince, in order to distinguish this variety from the other Gage plums, changed the name to Prince’s Imperial Gage, now shortened to Imperial Gage. In 1852, the American Pomological Society placed it on its catalog list of recommended fruits.