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feet high, which is the common height, they may. 

 be planted at eight yards distance from tree to 

 tree ; but if the wall be twelve feet high, or more, 

 seven yards will be sufficient. For my part, I 

 prefer a wall of ten or twelve feet, which will be 

 found high enough, if the branches are trained 

 horizontally ; by which means your trees will be 

 much more fruitful, and not grow so luxuriantly. 



By training an upright shoot on your plums, as 

 directed for pears, you will get fine kind shoots 

 from the sides. The leading shoot should be 

 shortened, leaving it from one to two feet long, 

 according to its strength. If the leading shoot 

 be very strong, you may top it twice in the 

 summer, as directed for pears, and at the same 

 time that you top them; repeating the same every 

 year till the wall is filled to the top. I would 

 always recommend, where it is convenient, to allot 

 one wall for plums and another for cherries, as they 

 always thrive best by themselves. 



As you will have plum-trees to spare, that were 

 planted between pear-trees, when they begin to 

 meet, they should be planted against another wall, 

 or planted out as dwarf standards. Those which 

 you intend for standards should be prepared in the 

 following manner. The year before you mean to 

 transplant them, cut in the side-shoots at different 

 lengths, from one foot to three, according to the 

 size of the trees ; suffering them to grow rude all 

 the summer, neither nailing in nor cutting the side 

 and foreright shoots. Some time during the winter 



