greengage

• “These trees also differ in their manner of growth: "the greengage is a very short-jointed, slow-growing tree, of spreading and rather dwarfish habit;" whilst its offspring, the imperial gage, "grows freely and rises rapidly, and has long dark shoots.”

  The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.

• “And once the cards had been taken down from their strings and the tree lights well and truly entangled for next year, it was always a particular joy in the first days of January to wander up the garden path through the 'orchard' as we euphemistically called it, to take a look at a patch of earth under a stubborn old greengage tree.”

  Aconite Acolyte

• “This has been greengage week, with mine ripening in the garden and a spate of greengage-related dishes on restaurant menus, including a very tempting almond tart at Bayswater's Le Café Anglais.”

  The Guardian: Nigel Slater's mushrooms with quinoa and chard, and baked greengages recipes

• “I noticed a chimney rising just above the treetops of a spinney of ash, maple, hazel, elder, blackthorn, ivy and bramble, and what was left of a cottage orchard of walnut, greengage and apple.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wildwood

• “He sometimes ventures farther afield, having gone to Puerto Rico for mangosteens, Italy for blood oranges and France for greengage plums, but most of his work is done in California.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Fruit Hunters

• “You will think me mad, but I bought myself a bare root dwarf (?) self-fertile, greengage plum tree, and a really giant fiberglass pot (Costco-$20, not even ugly), and there is now a plum tree on the porch.”

  Growing Food

• “And I want a greengage plum tree of my own in the worst way.”

  Growing Food

• “I actually planted a dwarf greengage plum in a giant pot on my apartment porch.”

  The Plum Project

• “If I move, it won't be for the big freezer, it will be because I long for my own greengage plum tree.”

  Toast:

• “There it is, the divine trinity: wild roses, greengage plums, and green-eyed shopgirls.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre

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