A number of interests conducted experiments on a commercial scale in the drying of plums.
In the case of cherries and plums, the prices of the foreign fruit were higher.
Then the alternatives were quoted—melons, cherries, plums and pears.
Plums and cherries sound very much nicer, and one is glad to go from the vegetable world to the fruit world.
At present the rates of wages which you offer are too low, the prospects are hazy, and the plums are too few.
We have all got to pay more for currants, plums, potatoes, tomatoes and turnips.
At the start of the 1948 season the prospects are that there will be a good crop of plums.
You would leave it like a cake without any plums in it.
