882 PLUMS. 



Standards, when thus fully established, require nothing 

 further than to be looked over from time to time, in order to 

 remove any superfluous shoots, or such others as may, by 

 their further growth, be likely to injure others. 



SEC. II. Espaliers. 



Espalier Plums are to be formed precisely upon the same 

 principle as espalier Pears, having a central upright stem 

 with horizontal branches issuing from each side; these should 

 be trained at nine inches .apart, except in such sorts as are 

 of a very slender wiry growth, in which they may be some- 

 what nearer. 



The branches of Plums require to be continued at length, 

 without ever shortening the leading shoot, and their spurs 

 should be managed as directed for Pears, except in the first 

 pruning in the summer, when the foreright and side shoots 

 must be shortened to one inch instead of two, as they are not 

 so likely to throw out additional shoots from these artificial 

 spurs in the same season. 



Some of the strongest, however, of these spurs will be 

 likely to make a second shoot, which must, in the second 

 pruning, be cut off below the eye whence it originated ; never 

 .shortening a second shoot like the first, as a repetition of 

 this alone causes the spurs, in every description of espalier 

 and wall tree, to be what are termed bushheaded, instead of 

 having any tendency to acquire a more natural character : 

 they are at all times unsightly, and never productive of fruit. 



A SELECTION OF PLUMS BY THE EDITOR. 



Those marked with an asterisk * are adapted for Espalier or 

 duenouille Training. 



Ripe in July and August. 



Blue Gage 1 *Blue Perdrigon 2 



*Early Amber 48 Early red Primordian 17 



Great Damask of Tours 3 *Green Gage 10 



*Jaune Hative 49 *Morocco 6 



Precoce deTours 7 Violette native 9 



Wilmot's Early Orleans 41 *Kirk's Plum 5 



