. The fruit garden. Fruit-culture; Fruit trees. 156 THE FRUIT GARDEN appearance, which strictly cannot be termed dessert varieties. These succeed as dwarfs, pyramids, and standards in the open ground, and so grown, are excellent for culinary purposes ; but the improvement effected in size, quality, and flavour by wall cultivation is so great that their inclusion among the best dessert and exhibition plums is justified :— Old Green Gage, Brahms Green Gage, Brandy Gage, Bryanston Gage, Denniston^s Superb Gage, Oullitis Golden Gage, Comte d'Attkem's Gage, Golden Transparent Gage, Transparent Gage
. The fruit garden. Fruit-culture; Fruit trees. 156 THE FRUIT GARDEN appearance, which strictly cannot be termed dessert varieties. These succeed as dwarfs, pyramids, and standards in the open ground, and so grown, are excellent for culinary purposes ; but the improvement effected in size, quality, and flavour by wall cultivation is so great that their inclusion among the best dessert and exhibition plums is justified :— Old Green Gage, Brahms Green Gage, Brandy Gage, Bryanston Gage, Denniston^s Superb Gage, Oullitis Golden Gage, Comte d'Attkem's Gage, Golden Transparent Gage, Transparent Gage, Reine Claude de Bavay, Transparent Late Gage, Gee's Golden Drop, Jejfferson, Kirkis Blue, Reine Claude Violette, Washington. The follow- ing; are, strictly speaking, culinary sorts, but when grown against a wall are good enough for dessert: Archduke, Monarch, Prince Englebert, Prince of Wales, Pond's Seedling, White Magnum Bonuin. THE PLUM FOR ORCHARDS AND PLANTATIONS By GEORGE BUNYARD The plum is generally grown upon standard trees. From these very fine fruit is produced, except in the northern counties. There they are best grown upon walls, then the fruit is not only large, but under the protection of the foliage takes on a beautiful bloom, and in that condition is considered perfect for dessert. Pyramid, bush, and cordon trees must be lifted and root-pruned every other year, or the growth becomes so gross that the spurs are un- fertile. They pay well for this treatment, but care should be taken that only half the trees are root-pruned at one time, so that in case of a dry spring the crop is not entirely lost. But when the trees have formed a mass of fibrous roots they do not suffer, especially if the root-pruning is done at the end of October before the leaves fall. When standard trees bear a heavy crop, the fruits when three parts grown should be thinned ; those removed can then be used for tarts. But on walls and garden trees the fruits should be thinned when they are
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