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Show TLYUM TREES ARE HARDY. As u general rule our orchard trees, i after being set out, are loft entirely to nature and when the question of pruning prun-ing pomes, as It fre.quently does In dis- ' cussions before horticultural societies, it Is interesting to note that no one can I give any sensible reason for advocating pruning on the one hand, or no prun- i Ing on the othor. But the plum. Is a tree that is especially healthful only i when a limited number of branches ! aro loft on the trees; and for this rca- son tho. weaker and poorer class of ' shoots should never be allowed to exist. When the trees arc young, one ' should keep an eye to the branches ' that are likely to be tho most vigor- 1 ous. and many of the weaker ones should be at once taken away. This suggestion Is, in a measure, true of alL i fruit, trees. A limited number of large, i heavy, vigorous leaves is of much moro consequence to the vital power ; of the trco than a large number of 1 ljalf-starved leaves would be, but true i as this Is with most fruit trees, It is i particularly true of the plum. The go-as-you please style of raising plum trees rarely results In remarkable profit.' : ' ,. r , Somo( farmers in Southeastern His- sou'rl aro osncrlmfenUng,llh,ffslrIcHik 'i raisinp- .''. a |