PLUMS. 4*71 



Highlands of Scotland. 



RIPE IN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER. 



Early Orleans - 16 Kirke's - 5 



Fotheringham - - 18 Morocco - 6 



Goliath - 20 Violette Hative - 9 



RIPE IN SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER. 



Coe's Plum - 45 Orleans - 29 



Diaper - 15 Prune Suisse - , - 30 



Green Gage - 10 Purple Gage - 31 



Imperatrice - - 21 Red Magnum Bonum 33 



Lucombe's Nonsuch - 11 Wentworth - - 54? 



Propagation. 



Plums are propagated by budding and grafting upon 

 the Brussels and the Common Plum stock. The former 

 is principally employed for such sorts as are intended to 

 be worked standard high ; it is used also for dwarfs. 



The* Common stock is used likewise for both standards 

 and dwarfs ; but then the former are worked below, the 

 same as for dwarfs, and the strongest of the plants are 

 allowed to run up for standards. 



The Brussels stock is a very useful one for the nur- 

 seryman, being a vigorous grower ; if it is planted out 

 one year, and then cut down to the ground, it will 

 throw up a straight, smooth, handsome shoot, six feet 

 high the first year, on which Apricots and Plums may 

 be budded standard high the following summer, and 

 they will make handsome plants at the end of another 

 year ; but this excess of vigour in the Brussels stock is 

 not in favour of its durability.. 



In raising standard Plums, however, I have found it 

 the best \vay to bud them upon the Common stock, nine 

 inches from the ground. If the stocks are strong and 

 in health, and upon a good soil, they will throw up the 

 vigorous growing sorts standard high the first yearj 



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