374 SOME SPECIFIC MODES OF TRAINING 



season's growths are seen projecting beyond the 

 roof -line. 



TREES AND BUSHES IN POTS 



Many fruit trees are successfully grown in pots 

 or boxes, being used either for forcing purposes 

 or for fruit -bearing at their normal season. Such 



243. Fan -trained dwarf pear. 



trees, unless used for forcing, are chiefly valuable 

 as ornamentals and curiosities, although the fruits 

 should be of the very finest quality. Fig. 245 is 

 an apple tree several years old, in full bearing. 

 It is in a sixteen -inch pot. Trees of this size 

 should ripen from ten to twenty-five apples. Pot- 

 grown apples and pears should be dwarfs. 



