120 GARDENING FoR ALL. 
PLUM.—(Prunus domestica). 
The plum does not take the same rank as the peach or 
pear as a dessert fruit, but there is a likelihood that, as the 
drying of plums becomes an industry of greater value, dessert 
plums will assume an im- 
portance far beyond the 
position they at present 
occupy. 
Plums are a _ profit- 
able crop in suitable 
positions and localities, 
and are often worth from 
£50 to £80 per acre. 
Pershore, Victoria, and 
Rivers’ Early Prolific are 
reliable and heavy crop- 
pers, and are favourite 
market varieties. The 
Czar, the Mallard, Cur- 
lew, Mitchelson’s, New 
Early Orleans, Prince 
Englebert, Belle de Sep- 
tembre and Monarch are 
also free bearing varieties. 
: They succeed well as 
Wrong method of root-pruning and aeeace se data 
decay of main roots through com- waristandards on grass, 
mencing too near the tree. or on cultivated land and 
in gardens, and also on 
walls of all aspects except due north. Good varieties for 
growing on walls are Transparent Gage, Oulin’s Golden Gage, 
Purple Gage, Jefferson, Coe’s Golden Drop, Belle de Septem- 
bre, Victoria, Pond’s Seedling, Reine Claude de Bavay, and 
Magnum Bonum (white and yellow). 
In the districts of Evesham and Pershore several 
thousands of acres are planted with plums, mainly Victoria, 
Early Prolific, and Pershore ; and hundreds of tons of plums 
are daily despatched from those stations, and others in the 
district, from the middle of August to the middle of 
September. 
