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Answer for the clue "Odd bits of garden attract fruit ", 9 letters:
greengage

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Word definitions for greengage in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin (taxlink Prunus domestica subsp. italica var. claudiana variety noshow=1).

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The greengages are a group of cultivars of the common European plum . The first true greengage was bred in Moissac, France , from a green-fruited wild plum (' Canerik ') originally found in Asia Minor; that original greengage cultivar nowadays survives ...

Usage examples of greengage.

When they had a neighbour to dinner on Sundays, she managed to have some tasty dish--piled up pyramids of greengages on vine leaves, served up preserves turned out into plates--and even spoke of buying finger-glasses for dessert.

On the table in the pavilion Kitty had put a big blue bowl of greengages and plums from Rannaldini's orchard, a matching blue vase of yellow snapdragons and red dahlias and two big jugs of lemon barley water but no alcohol.