The California fruits and how to grow them; a manual of methods which have yielded greatest success, with the lists of varieties best adapted to the different districts of the state . K\-VA 111/ 1t.^-^^ ^o sd/ •»* ^?fe.^i. Young and old French Prune trees rationally pruned for number and spacing of branches. addition to what has been already said about the Sugar prune, thegrower must be exhorted to study the habit of the variety he has todeal with. The general rules for handling trees with different habitsof growth are applicable to a certain extent to the plum. When toapply a rule or make an
The California fruits and how to grow them; a manual of methods which have yielded greatest success, with the lists of varieties best adapted to the different districts of the state . K\-VA 111/ 1t.^-^^ ^o sd/ •»* ^?fe.^i. Young and old French Prune trees rationally pruned for number and spacing of branches. addition to what has been already said about the Sugar prune, thegrower must be exhorted to study the habit of the variety he has todeal with. The general rules for handling trees with different habitsof growth are applicable to a certain extent to the plum. When toapply a rule or make an exception must be learned by observation andexperience. Some plums, like the Silver prune, have something of thegrowth habit of the peach, and this is also very true of some of theJapanese varieties. Cutting back in winter and pinching in summerare both useful facts in securing lower branching and low-growingfruit spurs. Grafting the Plum.—The plum has been grafted and regraftedin the constant effort to secure varieties promising superiority in va-rious directions. Within the scope of their affinities plums graft easilyby common top-grafting methods, and if the roots are strong thenew growth is so rapid as to nee
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