A number of interests conducted experiments on a commercial scale in the drying of plums.
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In the case of cherries and plums, the prices of the foreign fruit were higher.
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Then the alternatives were quoted—melons, cherries, plums and pears.
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Plums and cherries sound very much nicer, and one is glad to go from the vegetable world to the fruit world.
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At present the rates of wages which you offer are too low, the prospects are hazy, and the plums are too few.
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We have all got to pay more for currants, plums, potatoes, tomatoes and turnips.
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At the start of the 1948 season the prospects are that there will be a good crop of plums.
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You would leave it like a cake without any plums in it.
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I do not believe that it would be an attraction to entrants into the teaching profession if there were a few large plums.
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The position in regard to plums is still a little uncertain.
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They are the less loss-making part, the plums.
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Let me give an instance with regard to plums.
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I do not see why one should not produce their plums and give them a bit of publicity, even if we cannot get any ourselves.
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I have also looked after hens, picked small fruit, and picked and sorted pears, apples and plums.
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There is a reasonable prospect of plums becoming available for home jam-making later in the year.
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