Opinions of Dwarf Apples by American Writers. 



Fatrich Barry : ^' The apple, worked on the Paradise, makes a beautiful 

 little dwarf bush. We know of notbiug more iiiterestiuo- in the fruit garden 

 than a row or a little square of these miniature apple trees, either in blossom 

 or in fruit. Those who have not seen them may imagine an apple tree four 

 feet high and the same in width of branches, covered with blossoms in the 

 spring or loaded with magnificent golden and crimson fruit in the autumn. 

 They began to b»-ar the third year from the bud, and the same variety is always 

 larger and finer on them than on standards." — Fruit Garden, Neiv Edition, 1883. 



W. C. Strong : Dwarf apples are " well adapted for garden culture, giving 

 the advantage of early fruitfuhuss, an increase in the number of small trees, 



and consequently in the number of varieties, when this is desired 



Constant watchfulness will be required in the culture of dwarfs to give annual 

 supplies of food, to preserve the form by pruning, and also to prevent rooting 

 above the dwarf stock and thus destroying its character." — Fruit Ciittiire, 1885. 



John A. Warder: ''Such are very appropriate for the small garden, or for 

 the specimen grounds of a nursery establishment, and they somttiines make 

 beautiful objects on the lawns or among the shrubbery, but they are wholly 

 unsuited for orchard planting." — Apples, ISQl. 



John J. Thomas : " For summer and autumn sorts, dwarf apples are val- 

 uable in afi"ording a supply to families. They begin to bear in two or three 

 years from setting out, and at five or six years, if well cultivated will afford 

 a bushel or so to each tree. A portion of a garden as large as the tenth of an 

 acre, may be planted with forty or fifty trees, without crowding. All the 

 different varieties of the apple may be made dwarfs by working on the Para- 

 dise or Doucin stock — the former are smaller and bear soonest; the latter 

 are larger and ultimately afford the heaviest crops. Among the handsomest 

 growers as dwarfs, are Red Astrachan, Jersey Sweet, Porter, Baldwin, Dyer, 

 Summer Rose, Benoni, and Bough." — The American Fruit Cultiirist, Revised 

 Edition, 1885. 



George Jaques : "No one, we suppose, will attempt to cultivate these little 

 trees in this country, excepting for ornamental purposes. They are very pretty 

 garden pets in the midst of a flower-bed, or at the corners of alleys, or elsewhere 

 where fancy may locate them. They seldom bear more than a dozen or twenty 

 apples, and therefore the economical orchardist, looking to profit alone, ought 



not to consider them as worthy of his attention There is nothing 



very peculiar in the management of the dwarf apple. Its place is the garden, 

 not the field ; still less will it answer to put these little trees in grass-ground, 

 or to subject them to rough usage." — A Practical Treatise on the Management of 

 Fruit Trees. Worcestei^, Mass., 1849. 



