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for preserving, but is very unpleasant if eaten raw; it is very late ripe, and seldom planted in 
gardens, unless for stocks to bud some tender sorts of Peaches upon, for which purpose it is esteemed 
the best amongst all the sorts of Plums. 
29. Prunum Mytellinum. Park. The Muscle Plum . This is an oblong flat Plum, of a dark 
red colour; the stone is large, and the flesh but very thin and not well tasted, so that its chief use is 
for stocks, as the former. 
30. Prunus fructu parvo violaceo. The St. Julian Plum. This is a small fruit, of a dark violet 
colour, powdered over with a mealy bloom; the flesh adheres closely to the stone, and in a fine 
autumn will dry upon the tree. The chief use of this Plum is for stocks, to bud the more generous 
kinds of Plums and Peaches upon; as also for the Bruxelles Apricot, which will not thrive so well 
upon any other stock. 
Mr. Miller makes no mention of 
31. The Green Gage, unless he intends it by n. 18. It is the finest eating Plum we have, 
especially when it is tinged with purple, is ripe in August and September, and ripens very well on 
standards or espaliers. 
32. Blue Gage; ripe in September. A middle-sized, roundish, blueish Plum, of a rich flavour. 
33 . Wentworth; large, oval, yellowish, acid and parting from the stone, used chiefly for tarts 
and sweetmeats, like n. 10 and 11. 
34 . Damascene, vulgarly Damson; small, roundish, dark blue, a great bearer; in orchards for 
the kitchen: ripe in September. 
Ornamental varieties are the Double-blossomed; the Gold-striped; the Silver-striped; and the 
stoneless Plum. 
CULTURE . 
1 , 2, 22. The two first sorts and the twenty-ninth are easily propagated either by seeds or 
layers. Sow the seeds in the autumn upon a bed or border of good ground, in the same way as 
Cherry-stones designed for stocks. Treat the plants also in the same manner; planting them out in 
a nursery, where they may stand two years to get strength; and then transplant them to the places 
where they are to remain. They are usually intermixed with other flowering-trees and shrubs in 
ornamental plantations. 
Tor layers, the young shoots should be laid down in the autumn: these will have good roots in 
twelve months, when they may be separated from the old plants, and transplanted into a nursery 
for a year or two, to get strength, and may then be removed to the places where they are to grow. 
Perfumed Cherry is often propagated by grafting upon any sort of Cherry stock. 
All the sorts of Cherries which are usually cultivated in fruit-gardens, are propagated by bud¬ 
ding or grafting the several kinds into stocks of the black or wild red Cherries, which are strong 
shooters, and of a longer duration than any of garden kinds. The stones of the wild Cherries are 
sown in a bed of light sandy earth in autumn; or are preserved in sand till spring, and then sowed. 
The young stocks should remain in the nursery beds till the second autumn after sowing; at which 
time prepare an open spot of good fresh earth, well worked. In October plant out the young stocks 
at three feet distance row from row, and about a foot asunder in the rows; being careful in taking 
them up from their seed-beds, to loosen their roots well with a spade, to prevent their breaking. 
Prune their roots; and if they are inclinable to root downwards, shorten the tap root, but do not 
prune their tops. 
The second year after planting out, if they take to growing well, they will be fit to bud, if they 
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