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and full of a pleafant tafted juice^ it Is ripe 

 in 06tober, and bears well againft a wall, 

 or in any kind of dwarf. 



There are many other kinds of plums, 

 that are very ufeful for preferving or bak- 

 ing ; fuch as the red wheat-plum, and fe- 

 veral forts of damafcenes^ all of them bear 

 very well on ftandards ; and I have given 

 dire6tions for their management in treat- 

 ing of orchards- If a hole of only four 

 feet wide be prepared for them at the time 

 of planting, they will thrive very well 

 aftervv^ards upon any foil that is dry ; 

 admit it is fix or eight inches deep before 

 it comes to any kind of rock, ftubborn 

 clay, or loofe gravel. 



Of 



