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low Egg, Lombard and Reine Claude 

 will be found among-st the hardiest, 

 notably the two first. Among the 

 native plums, Wolf, De Soto, Hawk- 

 eye and Rollingstotie may be recom- 

 mended. These are very hardy, 

 comparatively free from disease, and 

 though small, are excellent for can- 

 ning purpases. In the milder sec- 

 tions the following list of the Euro- 

 pean class are suggested for com- 

 mercial purposes, in order of ripen- 

 ing; Bnidshaw, large blue ; Imperial 

 Gage, greenish-yellow; Washington, 

 large greenish-yellow ; SmitK s Or- 

 leans, hXwo. \ Lombard; Yellow Egi^ : 

 German or Italian Prufie, blue ; Relnc 

 Claude, green ; Coe's Golden Dmp 

 and English Damson. 



For the planter's own use, Hul- 

 ings Superb and McLaughlin mav he- 

 added, both plums of the gage kind, 

 and of the highest quality. Other 

 excellent sorts are Prince of Wales, 

 Duanes Purple and Goliath. Lombard, the Diseases. — Monilia, or rot, is b\ far the 



most commonly grown plum, is probably worst thing to contend with in plum culture, 

 over-planted. It is a vigorous grower, pro- It has been referred to under the peach, 

 ductive and fairly hardy. On the other Thinning will tend to lessen it, as will sys- 

 hand, it comes in at a bad time — mid-sea- tematic spraying with Bordeaux mixture. 

 son — is very subject to rot and black-knot, When the plums are ripening, all specimens 

 and is of poor quality. It needs good care showing rot should be gathered separately 

 and thinning to do really well. The Japan- and destroyed. None should be left on the 

 ese types are proving as hardy as many of tree, as the shrivelled plums that pass the 

 the European class, but many of them are winter on the tree will undoubtedly carry 

 of inferior quality. Abundance (see Fig. the spores of the fungus to the next year's 

 46a), Red f line and Burbank, are the ones crop. 



recommended here. The Abundance is an Black-knot is also a fungus, maturing its 



upright grower with slender branches, a spores twice a year, in May or June, and 

 good and early bearer but rather subject, as and again in February or March. Constant 

 is Burbank, to rot. Fig. 47 shows the cutting out and burning of all knots will 

 characteristic growth. This variety should control this disease in any orchard, but it 

 be shortened in to outside buds to encour- becomes a difficult matter to subdue the dis- 

 age a spreading habit. Burbank, Fig. 48, ease unless the whole neighborhood co- 

 runs to the opposite extreme, throwing out operates in the task with something like 

 strong, wide-spreading limbs, and must be thoroughness, 

 pruned accordingly. Curculio and plant lice are the insects 



A PRECOCIOUS SPECIMEN, 



'Burbank ". 



2 YRS. FROM THE BUD. 

 FIC. 4a A. 



M-BURRELL . 



