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The plum orchard. — Coming now to the general question of 

 plum growing, it may be said that the plum is emphatically a 

 special fruit ; that is, it is one which does not have a regular 

 standing in the market as pears, apples or even peaches have, 

 but is more or less dependent for its sale upon the general supply 

 of other fruits. In other words, it is a fruit of secondary import- 



37. — A condition, not a theory. Showing how the winter of 189^-6 used up 

 the fruit-spurs 0/ Japanese and domestica plums, but did not injure 

 the Aniericanas. 



ance, so far as the market is concerned. This being the case, it 

 will readily be seen that it is not a difficult matter to overplant 

 for the plum market. In western New York, the industry has 

 been developed to a very important extent, but the production of 

 fruit has probably not yet reached its zenith. Many of the 

 orchards have been planted with no particular forethought, but 



