GROWING APRICOTS and PLUMS 
The two fruits require about the same 
cultivation as peaches except that they can 
not be cut back like peaches. They will grow 
on thinner soil than peaches and the apricots 
like the south side of a hill or building. 
When I was in Colorado a few years ago I 
found great apricot orchards planted south 
of mountains. The apricot does not make any 
tap root but grows right on top of the 
ground. For this reason, it is hard to culti- 
vate them shallow enough. This caused the 
idea that they will grow better in a yard 
than any where else but they will make 
large trees out in the field if cultivated real 
shallow. The plums are hardier than apricots 
and can stand a little deeper cultivation. The 
trees should be set twenty feet apart for the 
plums and about twenty-five for the apri- 
cots. I get a great many letters from people 
stating that they have apricot trees fifteen 
years old that have never borne a crop. I 
once had about fifty trees that did this very 
thing. They were trees entirely unsuited for 
our Southern climate. The buds on such 
trees are tender and often killed in the win- 
ter time so the tree never even blooms. If 
the tree is not desirable for shade such trees 
should be dug up for they never will bear. 
The market for plums is more limited 
than the market for peaches. They are 
mostly used for jelly and preserves and it 
does not take so many to supply the demand. 
But when it comes to apricots, I defy any- 
one to produce a better tasting fruit than 
the apricots we can grow here in Texas. I 
doubt that the market will be supplied with 
them. One trouble with apricots they begin 
to get ripe before people are expecting fruit 
and right at first do not sell so well but 
there is a demand at the wind up. They 
usually bring five dollars per bushel in 
bushel baskets and in gallon baskets may 
bring as high as 75 cents per basket. The 
worst enemy to both fruits is the Curculio 
and to combat this pest requires careful 
spraying but Curculio is only bad about one 
year in ten. 
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