404 Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



dwarf apples, and the following list given, by Barry* is probably 

 the best now available: 



" Red Astrachan, Large Sweet Bough, Primate, Beauty of 

 Kent, Alexander, Duchess of Oldenburg, Fall Pippin, Williams 

 Favorite, Gravenstein, Hawthornden, Maiden Blush, Porter, 

 Menagere, Red Beitigheimer, Bailey Sweet, Canada Reinette, 

 Northern Spy, Mother, King of Tompkins County, Twenty-ounce, 

 Wagener." To this list might also be added Jonathan and Ben 

 Davis, both doing well when dwarfed. 



SUMMARY OF THE EVIDENCE. 



The evidence shows that dwarf apple trees have been so little 

 and so carelessly grown in this state that no definite evidence of 

 their value can be obtained. Nearly all writers and correspond- 

 ents agree in saying that they are unprofitable for commercial 

 planting, although they are equally ready to admit that the trees 

 may be satisfactory as single specimens or as ornaments in the 

 garden. It is a general and apparently well founded opinion 

 that apples grown on dwarf trees are handsomer and of better 

 quality than those grown upon standards. This suggests that 

 dwarf trees may be profitably employed for growing varieties 

 which are suitable for very fancy or dessert uses. Dwarf trees 

 can be easily sprayed and tended, and the fruit can be carefully 

 thinned. They may be planted as close as eight feet apart each 

 way, although a greater distance is probably preferable. A ma- 

 ture dwarf tree, which has been well grown, may average two or 

 three pecks of apples each year. The Paradise is evidently the 

 best stock to use, but this stock is not perfectly uniform in habit 

 of growth or in the size which it may attain. In short, the name 

 Paradise belongs rather to a class of very dwarf-growing apple 

 trees than to any single and definite variety. These Paradise 

 stocks are grown from layers, chiefly in France whence our nur- 

 serymen obtain them. From all the evidence which I have been 

 able to collect, therefore, I cannot advise the planting of dwarf 

 apple trees for commercial rewards, but it seems to me, never- 

 theless, that they are worth experimenting with for this purpose. 



E. G. LODEMAN. 



* "Fruit Garden," Now York, 1890, p. 362. 



