PLANNING AN IDEAL PLUM 

 OR PRUNE 



THE REQUIREMENTS AND How THEY 

 MAY BE MET 



WHEN I was in the nursery business a 

 man came to me on one occasion and 

 wanted trees for his orchard. I 

 showed him my stock, but it did not suit him. 

 He wanted trees that grew six feet high before 

 branching. I had nothing answering that de- 

 scription, so he bought elsewhere. 



In a year or two his tall trees were sweeping 

 the ground, quite as might have been expected. 

 So the orchardist came to me to find out what 

 he should do. 



Naturally I told him he should have com- 

 menced right by getting trees of the right form 

 at the outset. Now there was nothing for him 

 to do but to cut his trees back to the right 

 height, and let them start anew, thus losing 

 two years of growth. He did not like this 

 prescription, but presently had to follow it. Of 



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