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them back severely, they did not form such low bushy 

 heads as my ideal species. They are on St. Julien 

 roots, which serve the purposes in hand fairly well. 

 Though the trees had a hard trip across the water only 

 one out of forty-six has died in three years. Unfortu- 

 nately these trees have not yet borne fruit, not one 

 of them. Next year many of them will bear. Earlier 

 fruitage can certainly be secured on sand cherry stocks 

 and under other methods of training. 



Besides the bush plums, the garden contains a row 

 of upright cordons. Most of these were not propa- 

 gated on dwarf stocks at all, and were not expected 

 to suffer any such drastic training as I have put upon 

 them. They were taken from the college nursery and 

 from the nurseries of several of my correspondents, 

 just wherever I could find the varieties I wanted, and 

 without reference to the stocks on which they were 

 growing. A few are on Americana stocks, several are 

 on peach roots (of all things), and probably a major- 

 ity are growing on the usual Myrobalan roots. These 

 trees are planted two feet apart in the row and are 

 tied up to a trellis of chicken wire. There are about 

 thirty varieties in the row, numbering most of the 

 different botanical types more frequently cultivated in 

 Xor.th America. Many of the varieties are totally and 

 very obviously unsuited to this method of treatment, 

 and presently I will replace them with more amenable 

 varieties. But many of the varieties have fruited, espe- 

 cially the Japanese kinds, and some of them, like Bur- 

 bank, have proved most unexpectedly docile. Alto- 

 gether this row of unsuitably propagated and unsuit- 

 ably selected varieties of plum trees has been one of 



