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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



July, 1907 



Sun-Dials with Pedestals, Complete 



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PICTURESQUE SUBURBAN HOUSES (New 1907). Price by mail, $2.00. 

 New, artistic and original designs for Cement, Stone and Frame houses. 

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NEW PICTURESQUE COTTAGES. Price by mail, $1.00. Containing 

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BOOK OF BUNGALOWS, 1906. Price by mail, $2.00. A unique and 

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WM. WARNER HARPER, PROPRIETOR 



into September. It is a fine cropper of most 

 beautiful fruit, but the tree is exceedingly 

 sprawling. Sultan or Occident grows a little 

 like Burbank, and the fruit is one of the very 

 best of the Burbank sorts. It falls from the 

 tree when ripe, is of a dull red color, while 

 the flesh is deep blood red. Gold is a very 

 late plum, keeping for weeks after picking. 

 The quality is very satisfactory. Apple is a 

 large and attractive plum, really looking like 

 a medium-sized apple. The flesh is red, qual- 

 ity good, and it is another splendid keeper. 

 Bartlett I have not yet ripened, but I know it 

 to be a medium-sized, dark red fruit, of the 

 richest quality. The tree grows as erect as a 

 Lombardy poplar. America is not at all an 

 acquisition. It bears good crops, of only mod- 

 erate quality, and not nearly as good as Bur- 

 bank. I am growing First and Combination. 

 The trees prove hardy, and from Mr. Bur- 

 bank's recommendation I think they will be a 

 valuable addition to our garden. Wickson 

 has not proved to be of any value in this sec- 

 tion. I get some fruit, but not enough to call 

 it a crop ; while the tree, a very upright and 

 vigorous grower, is liable to die at any time. 

 We owe Gonzales and Waugh to the men 

 w hose names they bear ; and they are two of 

 our most promising fruits. They prove entire- 

 ly hardy, and the quality of the fruit is ex- 

 cellent. 



Of native plums I think that an ordinary 

 gardener or orchardist would be satisfied with 

 De Soto, Hawkeye and Milton, adding possi- 

 bly Forest Garden, Robinson and Weaver. 

 De Soto is bright red and of good quality; 

 Hawkeye of decidedly good quality and firm 

 for market. Milton ripens very early and is of 

 large size and good quality. Robinson is 

 hardy, a light red and early, but rather small. 

 Weaver is a large purple plum, a good bearer, 

 and tree very hardy. Wild Goose is so en- 

 tirely unable to self-poUenize itself that it 

 should not be recommended for general plant- 

 ing. Hawkeye also fails in being a perfect 

 self-poUenizer. 



As a rule grow your plums in clay soil, if 

 you can ; although the Japanese and hybrids 

 take well to sandy soil. Give good drainage, 

 and never set out a tree without adequate 

 mulching. This law holds especially good in 

 the Southern States, and in sandy soil. Plum 

 trees will do very well for lawn trees, and 

 grown in groups about your outhouses and 

 sheds. A common farmer's yard may give him 

 an enormous crop and a considerable income. 

 The Bleeckers will serve perhaps best of all 

 around farm houses, together with the Dam- 

 sons, and growing very close together; but it 

 must be remembered that both of these varie- 

 ties sucker badly, and if these suckers are al- 

 lowed to grow you will in a few years have 

 only a thicket. If grown in garden or orchard 

 plant from fifteen to twenty feet apart, and 

 even then the Burbanks and some other varie- 

 ties will need to be shortened in. Such short- 

 ening should be done with common sense, and 

 with the understanding that you cannot com- 

 pel such trees to absolutely obey you. Wick- 

 son must be sharply thinned, and Bartlett the 

 same. Prune during the winter or early 

 spring, but keep out useless growth at all times. 

 You cannot get ideal or model heads on plum 

 trees. A few varieties, like Field and Pond 

 and Guii, are very shapely, so as a rule are 

 Coe's Golden Drop and Bleecker, and some 

 of Mr. Burbank's newer seedlings. 



Spraying should be done in the fall as well 

 as in the spring, and very thoroughly — with 

 Bordeaux. For curculio spraying will not 

 suffice. The trees must be jarred with sheets 

 spread under, and the curculio must be caught 



