PLANNING AN IDEAL 

 PLUM OR PRUNE 



THE REQUIREMENTS AND How THEY MAY BE MET 



WHEN I was in the nursery business a 

 man came to me on one occasion and 

 wanted trees for his orchard. I 

 showed him my stock, but it did not suit him. He 

 wanted trees that grew six feet high before 

 branching. I had nothing answering that descrip- 

 tion, so he bought elsewhere. 



In a year or two his trees were sweeping the 

 ground, quite as might have been expected. So 

 the orchardist came to me to find out what he 

 should do. 



Naturally I told him he should have com- 

 menced right by getting trees of the right form at 

 the outset. Now there was nothing for him to do 

 but to cut his trees back to the right height, and 

 let them start anew, thus losing two years of 

 growth. He did not like this prescription, but he 

 presently had to follow it. Of course his trees 



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