IDEAL PLUM OR PRUNE 10T 



this business principle. Our fathers pretty gen- 

 erally supposed that a fruit failure about every 

 second or third season was to be expected. Now 

 we know that the right variety of fruit can be 

 depended on to give a crop each season. 



In selecting stock for your prospective plum 

 orchard, bear this point very carefully in mind, 

 and choose only such varieties as have the in- 

 herent tendency to bear fruit with regularity. 



SIZE AND QUALITY or FRUIT 



It was just noted that a prune may be so large 

 that it dries badly. This is not likely to be the 

 case, however, if the prune ripens early and has 

 a high sugar content. And as to plums in gen- 

 eral, large size is, of course, a foremost merit. 



There are other fruits that sometimes tend to 

 grow too large. This is true of certain pears; 

 also of some peaches. But the plum has not as 

 yet been developed to anything like the maxi- 

 mum size, notwithstanding the very great im- 

 provement of recent years. A good many of 

 my newer plums are giants in comparison with 

 the standard plums of a generation ago. But 

 no one complains that they are too large. On 

 the contrary, their unusually high price in the 

 market is due in considerable measure to their 

 large size. 



