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The following may also be accounted first- rate plums, and 

 deserving a place against the wall : — Coe's Late Red, Down- 

 ton Imperatrice, Isleworth Imperatrice, Royale Hative 

 Kirke's Plum, Blue Perdrigon, White Perdrigon, Ickworth 

 Imperatrice, Early Orleans, White Magnum Bonum, Mira- 

 belle, and the Dunmore. 



The Wilmot's Orleans, La Royale, Sharpe's Emperor of 

 Morocco, and some of the Damsons, though generally re- 

 garded as only second-rate plums, deserve notice, and should 

 always be introduced in large gardens, at least as standards. 

 The Early Violet is an excellent bearer, and strongly 

 recommended by Lindley to be planted in cottage gardens. 

 Lucomb's Nonsuch plum should not be omitted ; for when 

 well ripened, it makes an approach to the green-gage in 

 flavor. 



As kitchen and preserving plums we may specify the 

 common Damson, Imperial Diadem, Isabella, White Mag- 

 num Bonum, Red Magnum Bonum or Imperiale ; the Cale- 

 donia or Nectarine Plum, a large and handsome fruit. 



The finer dessert plums are propagated chiefly by bud- 

 ding on Muscle or St. Julian stocks. They are some- 

 times grafted, but gum is apt to break out at the place of 

 junction. 



Plum trees require ample space. On common walls they 

 should be allowed from twenty to twenty-five feet of breadth 

 over which to extend themselves. The horizontal mode of 

 training is adopted by many. The fan form is also very 

 commonly followed, and undoubtedly where there is room 

 it is the best. The shoots ought to be laid in at full length. 

 The fruit is produced on small spurs, on branches at least 

 two years old, and the same spurs continue fruitful foi 

 several years. 



Standard plum trees require only to have a portion of 



