FRUIT GARDEK DISPLAYED 



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Turkey Plum 

 Myrobalan 

 Cheflon Plum 

 Rcche Courbon 

 Damfon 

 Mufcei Plum 

 St. Julian Plum 

 Black Eullace 

 White Bullace 

 Sloe, or Tmall black 

 wild Plum 



Cherry Plum 

 Apricot Plum 

 Violet Plum 

 Imperatrice 

 L'Mirabelle 

 Maitre Claude 

 White Matchiefs 

 White Prunella 

 Rcyal 

 Brignole 

 Drap D'or 

 Diapre 



The varieties of plums are various In fize, 

 ihape, and colour, fome being fmall, others 

 middling and large, round, oval, oblong, 

 &c. and in colour, black, red, white, yel- 

 Jow, green, blue, very defirable Summer, 

 and /\utumn fruit, juicy, and refrelhirg to 

 eat, fome cf a \try rich 'feliciou? flavour, and 

 a colledion of the moil approved forts fhould 

 be introduced in gardens and orchards, both. 

 in ftandards, and fome principal kinds in 

 wall irees, againil fouth, and other v/alls, tp 

 obtain the fruit earlier, and of improved 

 growth and flavour, alfo fome in efpaliers. 



The various forts cf plum trees bear on 

 fmall fpurs, emitted along the fides, and at 

 the ends of the branches of two, three, to 

 feveral years old, and the fame fpurs and 

 branches continue long fruitful, and as they. 

 fumiili bearing fpurs quite to the extremities., 

 they muft not be fhortened. 



The trees are propagated by grafting or 

 budding the forts required upon any fort of 

 plum flocks raifed from the ftones of the fruit, 

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