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to subdue its natural vigor. The native, or Canada plum, 

 and the Myrobolan, or Cherry plum, are suitable. Sum- 

 mer pruning and pinching, as well as occasional root 

 pruning, are all necessary to check the vigor of most 

 kinds, and keep them in suitable dimensions for small 

 gardens where it is necessary to plant them close. Our 

 specimen plum orchard consists entirely of dwarf stand- 

 ard and pyramidal trees, planted in rows, ten feet apart, 

 and eight feet apart in the ro\v. They were planted some 

 twelve or fifteen years ago, and aro now models of beauty 

 and productiveness that, too, without any summer 

 pruning, root pruning, or pinching. 



The Plum as a Dwarf Standard. Besides the pyra- 

 mid, this is the only form in which the plum should be 

 admitted into the garden. The" dwarf standard, with a 

 trunk two or three feet in hight, and a symmetrical, 

 round head, is a very pretty and appropriate form, and 

 requires less skill and care in the management than the 

 pyramid ; and with proper care, the trees require but 

 little, if any, more space. 



The Peach. The best garden form for the peach in 

 this country, generally, is that of the dwarf standard, 

 with a trunk eighteen inches to two feet. With proper 

 management, which will hereafter be described, this form 

 is easily conducted, even when the trees are on peach 

 stocks. The plum stock, and especially the sorts recom- 

 mended for dwarf plums, give trees that are less vigor- 

 ous, and more easily kept in a small space. In most parts 

 of our country, the fruit ripens perfectly in the open 

 ground, so that espalier or oblique cordon training, as has 

 been remarked, is seldom practised, unless to save ground, 

 or in northern localities, where protection of the buds 

 during winter, or of the blossoms in the spring, is neces- 

 sary. In such cases alone are espaliers to be recommended, 

 as they require much greater care in pruning and train- 

 ing than any other form. Espalier trees are of various 



