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early and productive ; Cox's Emperor (red) and 

 Monarch are valuable Plunis ; Oullin's Golden, rich 

 and prolific. Those may be taken ao some of 

 the most serviceable Plums in cultivation. Rivers' 

 Prolific and Victoria do not make such large trees as 

 the others, but are the most certain of bearers. 

 A Plum of the largest kind is Pond's Seedling (red), 

 and Pershore (yellow) is the favourite of its colour 

 for market. The others, where the colour is not 

 indicated, are bluish purple, the first-named (Rivers') 

 being the smallest, but valuable because early, 

 and worthy of its name " Prolific". The very hardy 

 and free-bearing Crittenden and Prune Damsons 

 must not be overlooked. Planted in good soil they 

 practically require no attention, and good fruit 

 meets with a ready sale in the markets. 



The remarks on planting and the general manage- 

 ment under Apples apply equally to Plums ; and 

 with the sketches here following the cultural routine 

 cannot easily be misunderstood. 



Fig. 32, page 100, represents a Victoria Plum 

 tree one side as it should appear when pruned, 

 the other showing the result, the crop. It will be 

 seen the pruned side is not a mass of interlacing 

 shoots, but is open, with a sufficient number of 

 small "twiggy" shoots. However, after once or 

 twice shortening the shoots when a tree is young, 



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