1877.] 
PLUMS IN SUCCESSION FROM JULY TO NOVEMBER. 
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midal in form, not more than two and a half feet high, and are allowed to hang 
over the pots, flowering to the base. These plants had very indifferent treatment 
last spring, having lain some weeks behind a shed among cast-off Chrysan¬ 
themums. They were shaken out of the soil they were in, potted along with the 
Chrysanthemums very firmly, and otherwise treated like the latter. When they 
were taken under glass a good surfacing of horse-manure and loam was given. A 
number of young plants are now (February 7) coming into flower, and will make 
a good succession to the larger ones, which still promise to bo useful for weeks to 
come.—M. Temple, Im^ney Hall. 
PLU]\IS IN SUCCESSION FEOM JULY TO NOVEMBER. 
lAVING had the good-luck to be able to supply a large establishment with 
Plums successively, without the aid of glass, and that for three months, 
with scarcely a blank for either dessert or culinary purposes, during the 
last three seasons, I have thought that a description of the different sorts, 
with their situations on the walls, or as standards, might prove interesting to some 
of your readers. 
It will, no doubt, appear strange to those who live much farther south, and 
in what may be thought a more suitable climate, that fruit of this description 
should succeed and ripen so far north as lat. 57*40, and that “even ” on a wall 
with a north aspect, while many sorts fruit freely on standards. I may, however, state 
that the situation is a sheltered one on the southern shores of the Moray Firth, 
about four miles from it as the crow flies, and about 80 feet above sea-level. The soil 
consists of a deep, black, sandy loam, resting on a bluish sandy clay. The garden 
site is well above hoar-frost level. These are favourable points, to begin with. 
But much of my success is attributable to root-lifting and keeping these organs 
near the surface, "which enables the fruit to ripen with higher flavour, and the 
wood and buds with greater certainty. 
The first in importance for its early ripening is Rivers’s Early Purple, a round, 
small-sized Plum, which, when grown on a wall and well ripened, carries a bloom 
upon it like a well-finished Black Hamburgh Grape. It is commonly ripe here 
about the first week of August, on a wall with an eastern aspect. Although it is 
regarded as a kitchen fruit only, it nevertheless makes a good appearance on the 
table, and when perfectly ripe is a fair dessert fruit. Next in appearance and 
early ripening is Early ProUjic. This very much resembles the former sort, in 
time of ripening, size, and colour ; it is, however, very distinct from its relative, 
being a poor and scrubby-growing tree, and a bad bearer. These two sorts are 
said to have been raised from the Early Orleans. A rather remarkable result 
occurred with me in raising seedlings which I may here relate. A double-kerneled 
stone of the Early Purple Plum produced two healthy plants, which were both 
grown and fruited. One of these very much resembles its parent, the Early 
Purple, in all its stages ; while the other partakes more of the character of the 
Early Prolific in leaf and growth, the fruit, however, having more the appearance 
