lo April. 1911.] 



A Prolific Plum. 



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greatest area for root pasturage. The arms of the trees are trained along 

 each of the wires of a six-wired fence 10 inches apart, so that one can 

 understand the facility with which the fruit is handled and the trees con- 

 trolled. The carrying capacity of a tree of this kind is enormous, as 

 each of the twelve arms of the tree has room for an extension of 1 1 feet 

 on either side. and. in nddition. the prniertion nf short lifiht laterals from 



3. IRI ITINC, 1 \I1.K\I TKOM SIX ViAR 0;,ii C.KA.T. 



each of these gives one some idea ut tlie area of its fruit luMiing .suil.ice^ 

 Trees planted out such as here described must have snfficniit supi)Iy of 

 moisture to develop their respective crops, as the horizontal iu)siti()n(it the 

 leaders thus artilieiallv secured iuereaves the tendency to l-car. with the 

 result th.it il.nse masses of fruit appear all along the separate amis and 

 the pendeiil l:itiT;ds. 



