Cherry Plum. 
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CHERRY PLUM. 
Cherry Plum. (Fig. 23.) 
its culture as a market fruit, very profitable 
The annexed cut is 
a figure of the cherry 
plum, sometimes called 
the early scarlet, and 
known in Europe as the 
Mirobolan. Mr. Down- 
ing describes this fruit 
in the Horticulturist as 
follow^s: 
"The cherry plum is 
not a high flavored 
fruit; it is only what 
may be called one of 
pleasant flavor. But it 
is, we believe, the ear- 
liest of plums; it ripens 
at a season when fruit 
of every kind is exceed- 
ingly scarce; and it is 
quite an ornamental as 
well as acceptable ad- 
dition to the dessert in 
the month of July." 
It is considered a 
poor bearer; but Mr. 
D. states that Mr. Sam- 
uel Reeve, of Salem, 
N. J., has adopted a 
method by which the 
variety is made pro- 
ductive, and he finds 
He supposes 
its usual nonproductiveness is owing to too great a production 
of leaves, and wood. "He, therefore,'' it is said, ^'transplants 
his bearing trees every five or six years. In this way, the over- 
luxuriance is checked, and an abundant crop of fruit sets and 
ripens every year." It is stated that Mr. R. sends this kind of 
plum to the Philadelphia market early in July, when it brings 
from five to eight dollars per bushel. Mr. Downing suggests that 
root pruning, performed every two or three years, would answer 
the same purpose as transplanting. — Cultivator. 
