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Title: Catalogue of Green's Nursery Co
Identifier: catalogueofgreen1896gree (find matches)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Green's Nursery Co. (Rochester, N. Y. ); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock New York (State) Rochester Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Berries Catalogs; Nursery stock; Fruit trees; Berries
Publisher: Rochester, N. Y. : Green's Nursery Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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PLUM CULTURE. When I was a boy I liked to eat plums, and I have not reformed in this regard in later years. But they are more plentiful than in old times. The tendency of plums is to overbear, and they bear with regularity almost every year. This is a favorite fruit with the housewife and sells readily in the market at good prices. It is attractive, put up by nature in beautifully tinted wrappers and can hardly be passed without a temptation to buy or taste the delicacies within. Plum trees bear at an early age. The yield of plums from an acre is surprising. Plums thrive best on a rich, clayey soil. Perhaps no fruit needs more frequent manuring than the plum, owing to the great crops of fruit that it bears. It will also succeed on sandy soil. Plum trees require frequent cul- tivation. Plum trees can be planted much closer together than the apple or pear, and yet in field cultivation it is not best to crowd any kind of fruit trees; but in gardens plums will fruit well when planted ten or twelve feet apart. Plums, like grapes and other attractive fruits, should be marketed in small packages. Light baskets holding five or ten pounds are most attractive. I have known farmers to knock plums off the trees with poles, throw them into bushel baskets and in this bruised condition offer them for sale, then complain that fruit growing does not pay. Had they packed in clean, small baskets they would have received twice as much for their fruit. The plum is not excelled as a profitable market fruit. Single trees have been known to produce ten dollars worth of plums. Plums can be grown profitably in the hennery; hens destroy the curculio which hide under the trees. In large orchards the curculio has often proved a benefactor instead of an enemy, simply thinning out the superfluous fruit. (See Green's Book on the Plum, 'price 25 cents, for further instructions.) The plum of late years is attracting more attention that ever before. I passed yesterday a large plum orchard, owned by a successful plum grower, and noticed that he did not pretend to plow the ground close to the trees but allowed a strip along the rows to be covered with grass, although the space between the rows was thoroughly cultivated; his dwarf pears were grown in the same manner. The first three or four years however, it was easy to cultivate close to the rows with horse cultivator and no grass was allowed to accumulate there; these trees were thrifty and healthy and have been yielding heavy crops for sev- eral years.—C. A. Green. Interesting to Plum Growers. In the effort to improve our plums by cross-breeding we will doubtless achieve better results by resorting to the Japanese varieties, since they possess some desirable characteris- tics which the European plums do not, particularly vigor and produc- tiveness. So far as tested, these Japanese varieties give satisfaction in the West. Some of them have with- stood a temperature of thirty-seven degrees below zero at Geneva, Nebraska, withou t the slightest injury. By watching them side by side with our hardy natives the past four years and witnessing their splendid behav- ior, I have been forced to the con- clusion that there is a close relation between our natives and these Jap- anese introductions. In their large size and fine qualities lie the con- densed improvements brought about by, perhaps, thousands of years of selection, while our natives have been left to improve under the oper- ation of the law of "the survival of the fittest. "—From Nebraska State Horticutural Report. Please don't forget that our plum trees are on plum roots, which are far ahead of peach roots, will last as long again; that our Large size trees are extra large and fine this year; that our medium size plum trees are as good as can be bought, and that Abundance, Bur bank, Lombard, Bradshaw and York State are excel- lent varieties. We offer several sizes of all the dif- ferent varieties of Plum trees. See price list at end of Catalogue, for doz. and 100 lots.
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