STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 4I 



This little fig tree reminds us of our forefathers because 

 that is what they started housekeeping with. This one is grown 

 in the greenhouses wath the other fruit. In order to show 

 that the small fruit proposition, the small fruit tree, is not nec- 

 essarily confined to England, I am putting in two or three 

 pictures from a garden which I used to have in Massachusetts. 

 The one in the foreground is still growing but the apple trees 

 have been dug up. They were very attractive and interesting 

 and very satisfactory during their day. I may say they were 

 dug up simply because the ground had to be used for the erec- 

 tion of a new building. These are cordon apple trees, upright, 

 trained against a wire fence. The trees are planted eighteen 

 inches apart and have ample space, and you will see are bearing 

 good crops. Bro. Gould has stated tonight that many of us 

 are making mistakes in planting our apple trees too near to- 

 gether. He thinks they ought not to be closer than thirty-five 

 feet. I don't recommend everybody to put them in at eighteen 

 inches apart, but this picture will show that it can be done, and 

 done successfully. 



Here we have another picture from my own garden of a 

 dwarf pear tree. A six-year-old boy beside it will indicate 

 pretty clearly what is the size of the tree, and the crop speaks 

 for itself. This small apple tree bearing four or five first rate 

 good-sized apples had an entire height, we will say, of twenty 

 mches. Now that is a small tree. I believe in heading them 

 low and keeping them under careful attention. However, that 

 is a garden proposition and not an orchard proposition. And 

 while I am speaking about that I might as well say that while 

 I have a good deal of enthusiasm for dwarf fruit trees, and 

 have said something about them, and written about them from 

 time to time, I have never recommended them as a commercial 

 proposition and do not do so at the present time. They are 

 splendidly adapted to the needs of the ordinary city and sub- 

 urban dweller, the man who finds it a great deal more com- 

 fortable to move once in three years than to pay his rent. 

 Now the man in that condition cannot possibly go into fruit 

 growing unless he can have some small trees which he can put 

 in the back yard and bring into bearing in one or two years. 

 He can do that with a dwarf fruit tree and get a lot of fun out 

 of it, and under many circumstances when he has got to move 



