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Show JAPANESE PLUM VERY HARDY Will Grow on Almost Any Soil and Do Not Need Particular Coddling Come On Early. Plums of the Japanese variety .are popular with most growers, particularly particu-larly in the east, because they are hardy and come on early. Many of these varieties are the earliest in the market, and as they are always of good color, either cherry reds or light yellows, they sell readily and bring good prices. They will grow well on almost any kind of decent soil, and do not neec to be particularly coddled, although they should have all the care that any good fruit tree deserves. These trees were planted four years ago in soil from which pine scrub had been grubbed only a few weeks before. be-fore. The trees are bearing well and show fine color and great vigor. These Japanese plums differ from the domestic varieties in that its leaves are longer, thinner and smoother, smooth-er, and it has a great tendency to produce lateral fruit buds on the annual an-nual growth. Its fruit is mostly short, round and plump. The Japanese plum is less liable to injury from curculio and black knot than the domestic variety. Mr. Ful-lerton Ful-lerton says that up to this time his trees have shown no signs of disease or attack from insects of any kind. |
