THIRTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 6y 



which used to be so fashionable were made up particularly of 

 dwarf trees, and if you should go into some of the fruit gardens 

 of Europe at the present time you would find a large number 

 of trees handled as dwarfs. We are coming to that in this 

 country. Particularly when one has only a small piece of 

 ground, then the dwarf trees are coming into fashion. 



I have just now in my charge a little piece of ground on 

 which I am spending a lot of time and getting a lot of fun 

 out of, and I have carried this to an extreme. It is a little piece, 

 less than one-fourth of an acre, and yet there is planted on that 

 pears, apples, plums and peach trees to the number of 550, and 

 in the spring we expect to have enough to bring the total up 

 to 600. All this on one-fourth of an acre. That is carrying 

 it to the extreme, but they are all dwarf trees, or practically 

 all, and if we find we don't want them we can take them out. 



I might say, if I were starting out to have some fun out of 

 a garden of my own I should plant almost all dwarf trees and 

 plant them as closely as I could. I might say, if I had a piece 

 of ground, one-fourth of an acre, out of which I wished to make 

 a fruit garden, I should try to make it enjoyable as far as 

 works are concerned ; I should try to have the idea of beauty 

 as well as the idea of utility; I should expect to have them 

 smile at me as I came out in the morning, and that would be 

 my emolument rather than the dollar. I should expect to get 

 a certain quantity of fruit. It might not be the very best fruit 

 but to me it would be very sweet. In the way of pears and 

 apples some of the needs in the dwarf line can be supplied by 

 our American nurseries to a certain extent. Some of the lead- 

 ing nurserymen have the dwarf trees, sell them and propagate 

 them. You could propagate your own after you received your 

 first selection. So far as I am personally concerned I believe 

 in propagating myself. You can propagate just what you want 

 and get just what you desire. Whenever I came across an 

 apple that appealed to me I would grow it myself. It is easy. 

 I would follow this same practice with pears and all kinds of 

 fruit. 



I say I would have all these different things in my fruit 

 garden and I would do a great deal of the work myself. The 

 garden is for the pleasure of the owner, and propagating and 

 budding is a part of the fun. It is more fun than ordering 



