30 HINTS ON PROFITABLE FRUIT GROWING. 



easiest to rear by those without previous experience. 

 Apples will do well in any of such forms of trees, and 

 pears are also adapted for cordons or espaliers, plums 

 and cherries as bushes or " fanshape " on walls. Plums, 

 however, do as standards, unless for choice sorts, like 

 the best of the gages, which quite deserve to be tried 

 under glass more freely (as well as the choicer cherries), 

 or upon a wall with a sunny aspect, for the choicer 

 sorts. 



The plan, if he can wait, of raising his own trees 

 would enable the young would-be cultivator to get the 

 widest, first experience of elementary fruit culture at 

 the smallest possible outlay. He might acquire, if he 

 can find a practical teacher, a knowledge of the art of 

 budding and grafting, as soon as his young plantations 

 are available for these operations. Or, if hiring a very 

 small holding should seem too large a venture, it might 

 be possible to get some dependable allotment man to 

 raise the same trees on his own plot, by paying him a 

 rental in some shape that would not infringe any 

 regulations as to sub-letting. This would be far better 

 than to try and raise them in the smoky air of a London 

 back garden. Many allotment growers would be willing 

 to devote a small part of their plot for such a purpose, to 

 acquire experience at the expense of another, in the 

 same way as farmers raise farm and garden seeds for 

 the London seedsmen by special contract. 



