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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



2 YHS. OLD 



"Abundance" Plum. 



PLANTED AS A kyP.OLO Tfft£^ 



FIG. 4§ A. 



and after the head is once formed it is ques- 

 tionable if any pruning- is advisable beyond 

 the thinning- out of crowding shoots, and 

 the removal of broken or injured branches. 

 Manuring and Cultivation should be 

 the same as with other fruits trees. When 

 the trees are bearing a full crop, a good 

 dressing of cow manure and an application 

 of wood ashes will give good returns, as the 



maturing of so large a number of seeds is 

 necessarily an exhaustive process of both 

 tree and soil. 



Varieties — In the coldest sections of On- 

 tario it would be advisable to attempt the 

 growing of many plums of the European and 

 Japanese types. A few trees might be tried. 

 Glass Seedlings, a large blue plum of only 

 medium quality ; the English Davison, Yel- 



